Word: fear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ANONYMITY encourages a student to throw a bottle out a high window without concern for hurting someone or fear of being spotted among a huge grid of windows. It is a feeling that leaves a greater sense of detachment from the administration. As an emotional act, sitting-in the president's office brought the argument of the demonstrators into an understandable reality. Before, their debate was not so much arrogant as unknown...
...federal misdemeanors piling up against them, the Harvard name and the sanctity of its privilege would seem to show its mark in most cases. Yet, despite recent atmosphere of flippancy towards laws and rules, it would seem that a major prohibitive factor in the pranks market lies in fear of trespassing or lawbreaking. A perfect example of this was in the elaborate 900th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings plotted by the Lampoon last year. Rich and jubilant after a tremendously successful Play boy parody, the Poonies hired elephants and specially designed bows and arrows to re-enact the great...
...discussions will not achieve anything until the middle of August, after the Republican Convention and just before the Democratic Convention. The North Vietnamese don't like Richard Nixon but they like Lyndon Johnson even less; if there is progress in peace talks now, some of them suggest, they fear that Johnson will be drafted as the Democratic candidate, and they are anxious to keep that from happening...
Pollyanna Adams. Even Hubert Humphrey turned snappish. "You won't make this country better," he said, "by leading from fear, despair and doubt." If some "spilt-milk politicians," he added, in a speech prepared for a dairymen's convention in Kansas City, Mo., "would spend more time getting on with the job and less cussing out the cows-or crying crocodile tears about everything in general-we would all be better off." Indeed, if anything nettles Humphrey, it is Kennedy's implication that his "politics of joy" is frivolous and smug. "Hubert," said a sign...
Talley's death seemed the last straw. On orders from their union, bus drivers refused to carry change money after dark without armed guards; the result was a nighttime bus stoppage. In newspaper ads, 200 merchants noted "a growing smog of fear" over the city. Tourism, which brought 16.8 million visitors last year, is off some...