Word: fears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What disturbes me about this thing," Dr. Bock said last night, "Is not so much the fact that they are using the name of the Hygiene Department, as the fact that this fear is being set up in the minds of Freshmen. I can't emphasize how bad a thing it is to do to fellows who are just geting adjusted to a new life at College. It's a pretty low form of humor...
...last week Washington knew that the New Deal was suddenly feeling a new pressure, not primarily from big business but from all those who fear a business recession-a force so general as almost to amount to a pressure of circumstances. For even the left wing of the New Deal was alarmed by the possibility of a slump and Franklin Roosevelt's attitude appeared to reflect a tacit change. Likewise modified was the attitude of many a business man who has groaned because of unhealthy Federal deficits. The President last week reiterated his intention of balancing the budget...
This Hoover plan is to hold a Republican convention to draw up a platform- just as is done in Presidential elections- before next year's Congressional elections. Some Republican Congressmen, and presumably Alf Landon, fear that votes may be lost locally by a platform assaulting the New Deal. Herbert Hoover brushed this aside...
...present-day proletarian paintings are in general formalized, strained and snide. Painters like the late George Luks and George Bellows could make an old applewoman look pathetic; young painters nowadays are more likely to make her look depraved. Somewhere between pathos and depravity lies the truth which would arouse fear and pity. For various reasons-preoccupation with design, premature austerity, honorable anger or plain bad draughtsmanship-few modern artists touch that particular truth...
...opinion which attributes the evils of sharecropping to Southern landlords. That few casualties bite the dust is due chiefly to Guerrilla-Author Gordon's scattering fire, in her overanxiety to wipe out the entire enemy at one try. A possible source of her anxious haste may be the fear of being shot in the back by such unreliable Southern allies as William Faulkner and Erskine Caldwell...