Word: fear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FIFTH HORSEMAN IS FEAR. A stark, symbolic tale of the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, raised to a high level of creative cinema by the measured skill of Writer-Director Zbynēk Brynych...
...fear that the Government will end all private ownership of firearms underlies the N.R.A.'s opposition to registration of any weapons. The organization's officials argue that once local police were empowered to reject applicants for a permit to own a weapon, they would do so capriciously or on the basis of personal or political prejudice. Not surprisingly, such Negro militants as California's Black Panthers are dead set against gun registration, maintaining that it would be used to disarm them. Similarly, the New Left newspaper, the Guardian, has declared its opposition to "restrictions on weapons which would deprive sections...
...most Americans do not fear the end of the world, they are not so easily deflected from the worry that their stable society is seriously threatened-or, to continue the Icarus imagery, that the nation's high-flying hopes might be doomed to a fiery fall. That concern weighed on many minds as the country was getting back to business after the shock of Robert Kennedy's assassination. At Harvard's class day last week, David Shelton, the senior-class chorister, chanted new lyrics to the university's old anthem. Among the lines...
Many foreigners fear that U.S. violence is rapidly becoming almost banal, espoused by Maoists and Minutemen alike, routinely threatened-if not actually practiced-by students, racial militants and antiwar dissenters. Such fears sound odd coming from, say, the impeccably rational Frenchmen who only recently applauded student anarchists in Paris. Even so, the U.S. is undeniably starting to lead all advanced Western countries in what Swedish Economist Gunnar Myrdal calls "the politics of assassination." No French President has been murdered since 1932; West German leaders go virtually unguarded; the last (and only) assassination of a British Prime Minister occurred...
...that Americans want a police-state climate. It would hardly improve democracy; nor should the U.S. ironically honor Robert Kennedy by choosing fear over faith in people. Instead, the chief hope for excising the canker of political assassination is that a far more temperate political dialogue can somehow replace the incendiary language of anger, bigotry and vituperation-that millions of individual American citizens may now realize that freedom basically depends on persuading rather than provoking...