Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...began in mid-June spread quickly. While the Ministry of Health talked soothingly to keep down public alarm, medical officers quietly shut swimming pools and children's cinema shows, called off children's holiday trips, discouraged public meetings. But the epidemic has continued to rise, and doctors fear that it has not yet reached its peak...
...Presbyterian General Assembly announced this week that its biggest U.S. congregation is the 4,677-member First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood, Calif. But straight-laced descendants of the Kirk need have no fear that Presbyterianism has been luring in churchgoers with California-style hoopla. The secret of the Hollywood success lies in the solidly Presbyterian sermons and able administration of Pastor Louis Hadley Evans...
Alexander Neill's father was a strict Scottish schoolmaster, who used to spank his children rather repetitiously. Young Neill developed a fear of his father that haunted him until early manhood. Years later, when he began studying child psychology, he decided to found a school of his own, to produce children who would go through life free from fear and who would never need to be psychoanalyzed. Last week, by special invitation, Headmaster Neill, 64, was in the U.S. to give a series of lectures to interested educators and parents on the psychological and educational theories of Alexander Neill...
...ground the Catholic Church stands on is-for Catholics-high and lifted up. It preaches the love of God, but it also preaches the fear of the Devil. . . . The Catholic doctrine of Heaven has meaning because there is meaning and reality in the Catholic doctrine of Hell. . . . As Protestants I wish we'd stop worrying and clamoring against the secular competition with Roman Catholicism and begin to worry a little bit about the spiritual competition...
...values against ruthless foes. But from the standpoint of our Christian faith we have to view such struggles in another dimension. ... A contest of power between two great blocs of power in the world obscures the moral issues involved in the struggle and creates a vicious circle of mutual fear, from which there is no easy escape. We do not suggest that there is some simple pacifist solution for these mutual fears, created by power contests...