Word: fear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...captain and crew, however, are terrified of the place and leave in haste. Townshend and company recreate the journey home in exquisite detail, the swish of the sails, the churning of the sea past the boat, the receding fear and expectant joy as the motorboat takes them ashore, where they vow not to go back ever dismissing their master as 'crazy anyway'. The last verse of the song is a repetition of the instructions...
Where the Action Is. Evans was overhauling the speech up to the last minute, but its theme was one that he had conceived from the first: the bewildering pace of change in the nation today, and the challenge that this poses to the G.O.P. "This party should not fear to tread new paths," he wrote in his second draft, "for change in all its forms has been the generating force of America's greatness." The G.O.P. "must be where the action...
Learning to Limit. The U.S. involvement in South Viet Nam and Russia's handling of Czechoslovakia are, of course, totally different situations. Both conflicts, though, serve to show the limits of big-power action. The U.S. and Russia must move with caution for fear of touching off nuclear conflict, and pay some attention to the opinions of their allies. Both superpowers must come to accept some changes that they do not like. The Russians may eventually learn the limits not only of military intervention, of which they have always been rather chary, but of political subversion as well...
...country independent. The concept of freedom is vastly different in Asia, of course, from that of a highly sophisticated and Westernized country like Czechoslovakia. But freedom is contagious when it is allowed to survive at all - and that is both the U.S.'s hope and the Russians' fear...
While publishers can and do print anything these days without much fear of censorship, the question of what kind of books schoolchildren should be permitted to read arouses as much rancor and righteousness as ever. Some prudes are shocked that students should be exposed to the earthy bawdiness of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Negroes protest the "Uncle Tomism" of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn; reactionaries worry about left-wing interpretations in history texts. According to a recent survey by the National Education Association, 334 books on class reading lists or in school libraries were singled out for criticism...