Word: fear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week a chancery spokesman announced that the archbishop was "too grieved and heartsick over the matter to discuss it." Evidently, he has nothing to fear from Rome. Shortly after the priests' petition was mailed, Lucey received a letter from Pope Paul bestowing his "specific apostolic blessing" on the archbishop...
Sedulous Brainwashing. Drama may reach for the stars, but it must be rooted in the soil of "the rough theater." This is the popular drama of crude jests, false noses, stuffed bellies and fear in a faceful of flour. It is vulgar, grotesque and obscene, and it ranges from Punch and Judy to Bertolt Brecht, who argued that the theater should be like a prize ring...
...champion of democratic values in the Communist world, a courageous attacker of evils peculiar to Stalinism. But he is much more. Stripped of ah illusions by years of war, prison, exile, poverty and sickness, the Solzhenitsyn figure uncompromisingly asserts that modern man can arm himself against the fear of death only with life itself. He must do so by reducing life to complete simplicity, seeing it with unblinking honesty but loving and prizing it nevertheless. If Solzhenitsyn is against cruelty, hypocrisy and loss of freedom, he is also against the distracting things that freedom-with its consequent financial inequality-engenders...
...achievement with involuntary, passive achievement. At the same time, women as sexual objects are the butt of endless jokes; getting pregnant is getting knocked up. One of the most ingenious of Their numberless stereotypes is the belief that women can be salvaged from piety, ambition, bad temper, nervousness, sadness, fear, worry, pedantry, distressing political beliefs, hysteria, pretentiousness or aggression by a good session...
Lettvin said the hysterical performance might bring the police looking for drugs. He explained his fear that busts at the theatre would spread to the Student Center where AWOL soldier, John Michael O'Conner, then was taking sanctuary...