Word: fear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...very different place. In 1963, the Berlin Wall was still new; Charles de Gaulle had not yet challenged NATO; Konrad Adenauer still held sway in West Germany; the Viet Nam war had yet to poison the ambiance of European friendship for America. Europe was still united by fear of the Russians...
...most of these factors have changed. Western Europe is more restive, more independent-although the fear of Russia, which had markedly declined in recent years, was somewhat revived by Russia's invasion of Czechoslovakia. Last week the East Germans, backed by the Soviets, once more began harassing West Berlin. The provocation, they said, was Bonn's decision to have a new West German President selected in West Berlin on March 5 (see THE WORLD). By coincidence, Nixon's visit comes only a week before, though it was announced well after Berlin had begun to heat...
...School Committee met in executive session and appointed eight people to positions in the school system without interviewing any of them. Three of those appointees were relatives of committee members. Since then, 'family night' has become synonymous with patronage politics in Cambridge. We are here tonight because we fear another family night...
...imposed by an alien body and justifiably obstructed by force. Third, and most important, the limited resources of the University would be marshalled to serve the intellectual interest of students as well as faculty. Give the highly-touted diversity of the Harvard student body, there is no reason to fear that by fulfilling this responsibility to respect and nurture the intellectual interests of its students, Harvard would be obliged to neglect its additional responsibility to protect its faculty from political harassment in those academic matters which are not also political...
...sessions are supposed to be pain less. There is nothing to fear but fear itself (i.e., phobophobia...