Word: feare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Protestant-truly believe that non-Catholics are more emotionally disturbed for not having the confessional? We can hope not. You quote a pastor as saying that we should be thankful "that we still have one place left in the world where a man can speak freely and not fear retribution." Why should a man not be punished for murder? The Roman Catholic Church is not alone in encouraging the abrogation of individual responsibility: but the monstrous immorality of its stand in the Bartsch case demonstrates too well what effect official sanction of such abrogation can have...
Coercive Noninterference. The Israelis have tried not to disrupt Arab life unnecessarily, but there is no mistaking the fact that they are there as conquerors, not as friends. Arab farmers on the West Bank of the Jordan have been forbidden to sell their crops in Israeli markets for fear that they might undercut Israel's farm prices, which are on average 25% higher. Instead, they have been quietly permitted to export their produce to Jordan; a temporary bridge has been built next to the war-wrecked Allenby Bridge to allow Arab trucks to cross over to collect such produce...
...concluded by noting that "unfortunately, many marijuana users do not have the same apprehension or fear concerning its use as they do of the physically addictive drugs. This, I feel, is one of the real dangers which permeates the problem. Marijuana is likely to be used, at least initially, as a lark, as an adventure without fear of serious consequences. Thus, the first and apparently innocuous step may be taken in a succession of others possibly leading to drastic results...
...nagging fear behind this cautious treatment is that alien organisms might hitch a ride aboard the spacecraft, in the bodies of the astronauts or in moon rocks that they will carry back. Such bugs, against which man has developed no immunity or medicines, could conceivably cause a catastrophic plague on earth. "We know that we're dealing with a low-probability risk and that no one really expects life to be found on the moon," says NASA's Dr. Walter W. Kemmerer Jr. "Yet the best way to preserve life is to freeze...
CHILDREN OF CRTSISA STUDY OF COURAGE AND FEAR by Robert Coles. 401 pages. Atlantic-Little, Brown...