Word: fear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...national memory has something to do with it [dissent]. After four decades, the Depression has become something to read about in textbooks. . . . World War II, and the great need to prevent an aggressive tyranny from expanding beyond control, is a topic for old movies and not an aching personal fear replete with lessons for the present time...
Virtually all graduate student spoke with distaste of the atmosphere of competition that pervades the Graduate School. Some students, we were repeatedly told, would not discuss substantive or methodological questions of interest with their friends for fear that their friends might steal their ideas. Members of the faculty can do a good deal to ease this situation by providing reassurances to individual students...
Clark said that another Supreme Court decision--"Miranda," which requires police to notify suspects of their legal rights--"is not too meaningful because no one pays attention to it." Many people oppose Miranda, Clark said, "because they fear telling some people about rights that other people know they have...
...leaders of America's larger corporations have long been almost unchallenged rulers of their realms. Proud and powerful, self-confident and certain of their authority, they have often run their publicly held organizations very much like private fiefs. Now in many executive suites and board rooms, apprehension and even fear have replaced the old self-assurance. Some of the richest and most respected of the nation's companies have become vulnerable to sudden capture by a new and daring kind of business operator...
...railroads when they can net 15% in other industries. If this trend continues, some authorities fear that it will open the way for ultimate railroad nationalization in order to keep enough trains running to serve the public...