Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main tragedy-namely, that Greece was never liberated from fear-has been given its proper perspective, though I shall venture to add that emphasis was lacking to transmit that idea vividly enough to people who do not know the perpetual terror of inescapable fear...
...most perplexing reality in Greece's present national life. It is also the most important single factor in that country's current stagnation. No reconstruction, no rehabilitation, not even a simple personal improvement in the economic field can be expected when that all-permeating fear, born of uncertainty, terror and outright hopelessness, paralyzes every man's moves and every man's motivations. Take that fear away from Greece and it will be back to normal within three to five years. And that, with a minimum of financial support from abroad. Leave Greece one more year...
...real fight comes not when students sit down to drink, but when a student cannot feel the freedom of joining his friends ion public. Let him learn that the dollars and cents of his patrons are on the side that is determined to combat the philosophy of racial fear, however, deviously coupled with the rights of privacy. The greatest thing to be protected from this error of judgment on the part of the Club 100 is the continued dignity of the colored citizen of Massachusetts, a dignity that is certainly not respected at the Club...
...University, of all beliefs, have joined in a committee which new issues a call to boycott the Club 100. The members of the committee do not enjoy the prospect of overt acts of public pressure. But these men, whose names constitute a far-reaching cross-section of Harvard sentiment, fear even more the example of condoned prejudice that has cropped up so close to the University. It is for the men of the University to see that this racism is faced off and rooted...
...Forster's "Where Angels Fear to Tread" owes its significance to "an ironical, unforgiving attitude towards its characters," said Professor Israel Kapstein of Brown as he opened the series on the noted English novelist before the Kirkland House Forum last night. The purpose of the series is to lay the ground for a proposed talk by Forster himself when he visits the U. S. this Spring...