Word: fear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clear even the most minuscule matters with Hanoi. They even had to exchange twelve cables before they were permitted to move from their expensive digs at the Hotel Lutetia to a 20-room suburban villa once occupied by the late French Communist boss Maurice Thorez. Hanoi hesitated out of fear: What would the Chinese Communists think of North Viet Nam's delegates moving into a villa owned by the openly pro-Soviet French Communists...
...time went by, but I wasn't impatient. Quietly excited, though. Resting in the wicker basket the assistant had given me were my two oranges, clean handkerchief, and six flowers--all necessary for the ceremony. I began to fear that my flowers might wilt, but then the joyous assistant came softly to me, and whispered that I should follow...
Deep Discontent. Serious trouble began when students rioted in Paris' Latin Quarter against the shutdown of the suburban Nanterre branch of the University of Paris, closed by the authorities in fear of disturbances caused by student agitators. The upheaval soon spread across much of the country, fired by the deep discontent that permeates France's system of higher education. Compared with the U.S., few youths in France get to universities at all, and those who do find themselves immersed in a selerotic setup that educators insist was out of date in Napoleon's time...
Leonine Hazards. Such biological befuddlement is more evident among animals who have either been raised by humans or brought to zoos as youngsters. Under a keeper's warm and sympathetic care, Hediger explains, they gradually shed their innate fear of man and begin to accept him as an equal in every respect. Occasionally, after such "imprinting" or "assimilation," as animal behaviorists call these processes, male animals regard their keeper as a sexual rival. A male lion, for example, usually sits benignly by while the keeper strokes his lioness. But if the keeper shows affection for the lioness while...
...total abstraction, es chewing the cliches and conventions of gesture, costume and music by which both ballet and modern dance seek to evoke moods, emotions and dramatic climaxes. Whatever emotions Cunningham's audiences feel are entirely in dividual. The same movement or interplay of bodies might engender fear in one person and laughter in another-and that is the way it is meant...