Word: feared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...incredibly powerful forces that were being released right before his eyes? Here was a woman lying before him vomiting, then experiencing orgasm, childbirth, orgasm. He could not cope with it. He didn't know what to think, what to do. And he was up tight, not out of any fear or pity for this ugly woman before him. He could not have cared less about her. She might as well have slept with her great great grandfather and given birth to her great great grandson for all the boy cared. But he was suddenly and deeply worried about himself...
Only Elizabeth had dared to tell her greatest fear. The others remained in silence--a silence, for the boy, that was funny, schizophrenic, and absurd. There he sat, feeling the warm sun pouring through the windows and bathing his body, feeling the strength of the land and the mountains that surrounded them all, feeling his own strength--and yet unable to escape the strange, gnawing tension that was building in this group where people farted back and forth...
Doctors do not yet understand the meaning of this resurgence, and only now have two Philadelphia radiologists laid to rest one nagging medical fear...
...their view of films and their down-look on Hollywood. For the moment at least, they share a professional bond as foremost symbols of a freshening in American cinema: They are even valid sex symbols: the man with the postgraduate face, the mixed-up, half-hippie woman with fear in her eyes...
...books put together mainly from letters, excerpts from notebooks, oddments of thought and author's asides. The chief irony of The Girls, though, is that Costals, who keeps asserting that creative man must free himself from the constricting influence of women, ends by falling victim to his own fear and rage. Costals never succumbs to the Hippogriff. But by defining himself so incessantly in relation to women, he becomes, in some peculiar and not very attractive way, very much a ladies...