Word: feare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Steichen says she has never regretted it. "In many ways," she observes, "the girls in such marriages want very much to conform, once they've done this nonconforming." Joanna is unusually honest about her marriage: "They-we-always marry great achievers. They are attracted to them by fear that they-we-won't accomplish much on our own. If you marry an ordinary slob, do it while you're young and innocent. But to marry an older man, he must be marvelous. A good man improves with age." Joanna is also quite clear-eyed about her motives...
...fundamental economic values to underpin them. For example, shares of Scientific Data Systems, a Southern California maker of high-speed computers, leaped 17 points, to 120, in one day last week on news of a tentative merger agreement with Xerox. This sort of thing perturbs some economists, who fear that the speculative fever could end in scandal or stock bust. As far as Congress is concerned, that only provides another reason to clamp down on conglomerates and their fancy financing...
Whether this emptiness is to be viewed with fear, hope or a confusing combination of both depends largely on the state of the reader's nerves. The explosion of puritan values-be they Christian or Jewish-has created an army of walking wounded who worry not only about whether they should be enjoying the pleasures of debt and sex, but also about whether or not they are hypocrites if they do. The result is often a pervading sense of absurdity...
With love and hate, he recalls his father, a shambling insurance salesman who proselytizes for the religion of security, yet suffers from chronic constipation because his intestinal tract is in the hands of the firm of "Worry, Fear & Frustration." In a life devoted to trying to please his parents, Portnoy confesses that his penis was all he could call...
...into super-stereotypes, well suited for this age of exaggeration. Sophie and Jack Portnoy are pop Jewish parents; the Monkey is the apotheosis of the contemporary Id Girl; and Portnoy embodies not only the tics of a man trying to disentangle himself from his background, but also the latent fear of the liberal humanist that he may find himself out. It is no small concern to the Assistant Commissioner of Human Opportunity, champion of the underprivileged, that the human opportunities he really cares about wear skirts...