Word: fear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...centuries the roving bandit gangs of Sardinia terrorized the island's people into a grim, submissive silence known as omerta. The impoverished citizenry never dared to speak out against the outlaws, who robbed, kidnaped, blackmailed and murdered virtually without fear of punishment. Lately, the bandits have been pushing the Sardinians a bit harder than usual. They began robbing middle-class citizens as well as the wealthier islanders. They grew more vicious, asking outrageous ransoms and even killing some of their kidnap victims. As a result, the Sardinians have finally rebelled against the tyranny; they are not only breaking their...
...Graziano Mesina, 26. The darkly handsome Mesina, an idol to many Sardinian women and youth, surrendered without a fight last month when stopped at a police roadblock. But thousands of his cohorts have managed to elude their pursuers and blithely continue to collect their ransoms. Feeding the specter of fear, they have sent their kidnap victims back home with breathless accounts of their cruelty. "They talked in an atmosphere of bestial excitement," reported wealthy Cattleman Giovanni Campus, 32, whose family paid the bandits $48,000 for his release. "I was imprisoned for 19 days. My nervous system was shattered. Each...
...jacket cover is repulsive. It resembles the pop psychedelia used to sell Monkees' mysticism to 14-year-olds. If you bothered to decode the words "Incredible String Band," you still wouldn't buy--for fear of getting the New Christy Minstrels. The 5000 Spirits or the Layers of the Onion (Elektra Records) has been non-popular for months ("It sells about the level of Tim Buckley," reports a record store clerk); but it's of the same inventive class as John Wesley Harding and Sgt. Pepper...
There is no reason--save fear of the unconventional--that the businesses could not be owned by the community--through its Neighborhood Corporation--partly as cooperatives, partly as corporations. The profits could then be plowed back into such community srevices as day-care centers, teenage centers, training programs...
Ernst, in his own writings, returns again and again to a strangely fascinating sentence: "Enter, enter, have no fear of being blinded. . . ." He seems to say--don't be afraid to face disturbing images, don't be afraid of the subconscious they provoke. The show is certainly worth entering, but there is little fear of being blinded...