Word: fears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What they saw was a laboriously reverent folk story of a people held in ritualistic bondage, governed in every phase of relationship by shibboleths, superstition, fear. Produced in Poland with native players as passionately sincere as if their own souls were involved. The Dybbuk presents a painstaking picture of the weary search for eternal peace by a people for whom the earth holds little, affords an insight into the absurd involvements that are the accretions of simple faith...
...undoubtedly one of the most encouraging developments of the last generation. It means that the country is at last abandoning the blissful dream that it can ignore the danger of another major war. Keeping itself at peace through the efforts of imaginative senators and through a great popular fear of war. It means that America is beginning to serve the cause of her own peace and security in the only practical way possible by cooperating in the interest of international law and order...
...thing that keeps men out of airplanes is fear. Another is their wives' fear. Last fortnight United Air Lines' West Coast manager, Stephen Augustus Stimp-son-who introduced stewardesses to the flying public-decided to try to do some-thing about wives' fear. A survey revealed that "36% of wives do not want their husbands to fly, primarily because they themselves have never flown; many have never visited an airport; most have never seen a plane newer than 1929's trimotored Ford." California papers carried United's "very special invitation to wives whose husbands like...
...price fluctuation. On the o-t-c market, it passes unnoticed. Secretive firms, loath to disclose their finances, also prefer to have their securities traded on the over-the-counter market rather than on the exchanges. Banks and insurance companies are almost unanimously o-t-c patrons because they fear published fluctuations in their stocks might alarm depositors and policyholders...
...present, he offers only such concrete examples as how semantics enabled him to cure himself of a fear of "snakes," such hypothetical examples as how it might keep a man from committing suicide. In the mind of the would-be suicide, suggests Chase, would occur a semantic Stop-Look-Listen! monolog like this: "This is bad; this is painful, depressing, almost intolerable. But my life, my organism, is a process, always changing ... no two contexts are tho same. . . . Snap out of it, brother, snap out of it! Prepare for the next context...