Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...announced that the composers of the music are L. J. Abbott '24, M. H. Harris '24 and Theodore Pearson '25, and that the authors of the lyrics are L. J. Abbott '24, W. L. White '24 and B. McK. Henry '24, but very little more has been released for fear of spoiling the effect when the play is at last performed...
...religion comes as near to the heart of the individual purpose as anything can. We are all ready to suffer many restraints, but we are not ready to surrender the right of freedom to any one Religion must also be free in its growth. Religious education based upon fear does not stand the test of reason, for it is absolutely wrong and false to the idea of religion and education...
Possibly the fear that this blissful heedlessness will continue indefinitely has prompted the American Telephone and Telegraph Company to institute a series of patent suits which bring up for consideration the whole problem of broadcasting. But this apparently commendable impulse has been uncharitably criticized as an attempt to again complete control of the new industry. Certainly the defense of the company's proceedings which was based on the argument that neglect to sue would "in effect dedicate valuable property to the public" rings sharply of self-interest, rather than of a desire to promote public good. And theories arguing that...
...humility and her positive terror that she will not do good work, are unusual in an author of such standing. Her sister tells me that while she is at work on a story she is often miserable for fear she is not making her point, is not getting, to the best of her ability, the effect she wants. She is constantly studying life. She has friends whose viewpoints greatly vary, yet I am sure that she is sympathetic with all of them, and with perfect sincerity. She is dramatic, yet simple, and she does not overdramatize events...
...zestful with each bite, or closeup. Its story is that of a man embittered at fate by the sudden loss of his young bride, who hesitates to take the fruit of Eden offered to him in the person of a lonely girl of the Georgia coast, prisoner alike of fear and a maniacal murderer. The man who fears life's traps finally clutches at the fruit, rescuing the girl while she saves her own soul from the incubus of fear that has ridden her family. The tale is told with extraordinary vividness and pungency by King Vidor, a director...