Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...being a lecher, and of taking a bribe. He had double-crossed his political allies. When he ended his second term as governor in 1932, Mississippi had all but sunk into bankruptcy. His cries for "white supremacy" had affronted millions. But few demagogues had capitalized so skillfully on fear, prejudice and the human need for drama. The poor Mississippians whom he called "peckerwoods" elected him again & again...
...radioactive world, nobody ever feels completely safe. Radioactivity, a stealthy, silent horror that is neither felt nor seen, is both a mental and a physical hazard. Last week the U.S. had a small sample of the radioactivity fear that may become commonplace in the Atomic...
...caused by the fact that it is now man who threatens to undo the history ordained by God. ... In biblical prophecy and apocalypse, it is God who in one of His finally mighty acts brings history to an end. Now it is man who in blatant self-assertion, in fear-nourished pride, threatens to take his destiny into his own hands and hurl himself to destruction. This is the miserable arrogance of the creature who never learned to serve his Creator, the final blasphemy of man who thought that he could be God. ". . . It seems to me thoroughly dangerous...
...glad, happy, eager children who are not much interested in masturbation. A masturbation Verbot means miserable, unhappy children, often prone to colds and epidemics, hating themselves and consequently hating others. I say that the happiness and cleverness of Summerhill children is due to the removal of the bogey of fear and self-hate that such Verbots give...
...reading public," he made a place for himself in his period. He is as competent as any prophet to observe, at the end, "we .have lived through increasing intensity and its decline into fatigue, but the tranquillity, or at least the objectivity, is to come later, I fear much later...