Word: fearfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thanks to Mr. Thomas Bradley's decision to run for mayor, the citizens of Los Angeles had the opportunity to see themselves in daylight. Not a very pretty sight to watch-fear and prejudice surface and prevail. Possibly even more frightening is the Los Angeles voter's lack of qualms about jeopardizing the future of his city by placing it in the hands of a ruthless opportunist...
...months in Viet Nam, Jaramillo has known fear, boredom and disillusionment. His biggest worry: "Getting killed. I just couldn't see myself getting killed. Some nights I don't worry, 'cause you know nothing is going to happen. Some nights I don't even feel safe in the bunker. I've seen guys at night just crying. Let the guy cry. It's helping him. I cried. Two good buddies of mine got hit, but it's over with and you can't keep thinking about it." He does think about...
Continuing Decay. But the voters learn about upheavals elsewhere, on TV and in the press; fear is contagious. While Cohen put on a slick, well-financed campaign, Stenvig had only to state repeatedly that he would make the city safe for everyone. Cohen issued detailed position papers on housing, taxes, pollution and other issues, and attacked Stenvig as a Northern-style George Wallace. The detective meanwhile produced no specific programs, even in the law-and-order field. He answered personal criticism with the reassurance: "I'm not goofy...
...fundamental transformation in the human condition. The great change that had set in by the middle of the 19th century still rolls on, gathering speed and extending its breadth. Today, as in Marx's time, men feel the change as both a threat and a promise. It evokes fear and hope simultaneously. The Marxist vision is a peculiar, sometimes deadly-but for many men an effective-way of perceiving the moving society and relating themselves...
...from Peru after the U.S. announced that arms sales to Lima had been suspended because of seizures of and fines for U.S. tuna boats charged with violating Peru's self-declared 200-mile limit. Bolivia, next on his itinerary, limited Rockefeller's visit to three hours for fear of student demonstrations-and consultations were held at La Paz's heavily guarded 13,350-ft.-high airport rather than in the capital. Then, 29 hours before Rocky was to have landed at Caracas' Maiquetía airport, the Venezuelan government asked for a postponement of the visit...