Word: feare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...screaming, nearly hysterical, at the soldiers to stop what they were doing. I wanted to rip off my press badge and join the demonstrators, but I didn't. I felt sick and useless, watching and not acting. I did not know why I could not act. It was probably fear. I thought, and then I realized that I was coming face-to-face for the first time with some of the same conflicts that my friends were feeling, conflicts I had been sheltered from by my role as reporter...
What Mailer feels most of all is fear, first simply fear of being arrested or beaten and not being able to write his story to meet Harper's deadline. Then another layer is peeled off: And then with another fear, conservative was this fear, he [Mailer] looked into his reluctance to lose even the America he had had, that insane war-mongering technology with its smog, its super-highways, its experts and its profound dishonesty ... he was tired of hearing of Negro rights and Black power--every Black riot was washing him loose with the rest, pushing him to that...
...past, admen have shunned non-white performers in commercials for fear of alienating Southern viewers and attaching an "ethnic identification" to a product. What white Mississippian would want to drink a beer that is praised by a Negro? There was also the feeling that the sight of a black face would destroy the carefully contrived fantasy world of the TV ad; the sponsors were worried that the viewer would suddenly exclaim, "Hey, there's a Negro!"-and miss the message. Recently, however, a test commercial featuring a Negro mother talking about Pampers, a disposable diaper, showed that...
Throughout a summer of sizzling sales, Detroit's auto executives kept revising upward their estimates of how Calendar Year 1968 would turn out. What kept them from getting really carried away was the nagging fear that the 1969 models, which would enter the showrooms by October and bear higher price tags but few major styling changes, might meet with buyer resistance. That fear has all but evaporated. As Ford Executive Vice President Lee lacocca put it, Calendar 1968 is a "lead-pipe cinch" to wind up as the best sales year in history, surpassing the 1965 record...
...before writing she contacted Radcliffe President Mary I. Bunting, who informed her that everything possible is being done so she decided not to write the letter. She said Mrs. Bunting refused to give any details, for fear this would hamper "negotiations...