Word: fear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attempts at Trumanesque aggressiveness, his campaign still has an air of nervous uncertainty about it. Well it might. Grave problems of financing and organization persist. The Vice President's financial sources dried up after Robert Kennedy's assassination; many of his backers had contributed out of their fear of R.F.K.'s attitudes toward businessmen. Only recently have the funds begun to flow again, mostly from New York. While Nixon has jammed prime-time with television announcements, Humphrey plaintively told California students last week: "I haven't been able to afford a TV ad since last...
...symptoms are fear and frustration and anger...
...national force, making the two-party system seem suddenly vulnerable. It has lured Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew to the edge of demagogy, as they watch the national atmosphere darken and Wallace's popularity grow. For reasons of his own, Hubert Humphrey has played less heavily on the fear of lawlessness, and he finds himself losing ground as a result...
Everyone who lives within 300 miles of a voting place (and that's practically everybody) must vote or face going to jail. The junta has furthermore created such an oppressive atmosphere that citizens are simply too terrified to vote "no" for fear that they would be singled out for reprisals...
...this sense, perhaps, that gave us the security to engage and explore and different styles of music and of life, black music for example. They showed us a style of engagement that would preserve our sense of self, that wasn't slavish imitation, that neutralized our fear of put-down, that enabled us to deal with, assimilate to our own needs, and to love, elements that we may have once feared...