Word: fear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Better Wrecked than Crashed. By all indications, there are only small numbers of people whose fear of flying is so phobic that they find it all but impossible to get into a plane. But they have little trouble recognizing one another, if only because they are all inveterate train and boat travelers. When Composer Andre Previn and his wife spotted Folksinger Joan Baez on a train, they greeted her warmly: "Hello, welcome to Cowards Anonymous." Baez has since conquered her fear, but not Actress Joanne Woodward, who, like many another nervous flyer, takes a couple of tranquilizers before getting...
...Wallace turned off all questions while he stared fixedly out the window. "Listen, sonny," he said, "I'm tryin' to get us out of this weather. Now leave me be." California's Ronald Reagan is no braver. Congratulated recently because he seemed to have overcome his fear of flying, Reagan snapped back: "Overcome it, hell. I'm holding this plane up in the air by sheer will power...
...Reasons Why. "Fear of flying is not a laughing matter," says San Francisco Psychiatrist Edwin F. Alston. "It can involve clear physical suffering-nauseous stomach, sweating, trembling, and sometimes inability to move." In treating patients, Dr. Alston has found that the causes go far beyond the experience of a particularly rough flight. "It has always been a multiple thing," he says. For a few, the fear may result from a death in the family resulting from an air crash. For others, the airplane may represent separation-from both the ground and loved ones. Deep feelings of guilt often play...
Jack R. Edwalt, professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, also finds that other anxieties contribute to the fear of flying. "Trouble with the boss, an impending tax struggle, problems with a new product-the airplane can aggravate these." Often, too, there is simply "mistrust of the gadget." Polaroid's manager of community relations, Bob Palmer, who cheerfully admits, "I get tanked up while the airplane does," agrees. "It's really a hatred of being dependent on something mechanical," he says. Then too, executives who feel that they must always be in command may be bothered...
...seven weeks ago, and was made public by the senders because-perhaps understandably-it had not been answered by Rome. In their eight-page, 2,000-word letter, the priests charged that there was a "communications gap" between Lucey and his clerics, which had resulted in "an atmosphere of fear, alienation and dissatisfaction on the part of many priests." Citing a decree of the Second Vatican Council that urged bishops to discuss pastoral matters with their priests, the petitioners claimed that Lucey "has steadfastly refused even to acknowledge the existence" of the 160-member Priests' Association of the Archdiocese...