Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Borrowing from Ivan A. Krylov (1768-1844), the Russian Aesop, McNeil said: "It seems . . . that a poor serpent was unhappy because everyone was afraid of him, and he concluded that the fear was due to his unfortunate voice. So the serpent pleaded with Jupiter to give him the voice of a nightingale. Up in the tree he went and started to sing with all the seductive charm of the nightingale...
...morning last week, Nathuram Vinayak Godse, the young fanatic who shot Gandhi (TIME, Feb. 9, 1948), drank his last cup of prison coffee. While jailers waited, Godse and his accomplice, Narayan Dattatraya Apte, recited from the Hindu Holy Writ, the Bhagavad-Gita ("Fight, and have no fear. The foe is yours to conquer"). They walked to the scaffold, clutching their Gitas between the palms of their tied hands...
...reacting to danger (real or imagined) may express himself in three ways: anger, anxiety or fear. Anger and fear find outlets in fight and flight, but anxiety is a painful in-between that allows neither fight nor flight. The anxious man suffers poor circulation, especially at the extremities ("cold feet"), his muscles are "all tightened up," his breathing is likely to become fast and shallow...
...make is sure to rouse cries of anguish. If it gives color-telecast permission to CBS, the only outfit with a color system that works well at present, it will offend the manufacturers of black & white sets and their dealers, who are prospering on the status quo, and who fear that any promise of color will make the public stop buying. It will offend many TV station owners, most of whom, now living on hope and money transfusions, dread the greater cost of color telecasting. It will also offend Radio Corporation of America, No. 1 operator in the industry, which...
There is a fascination in fear. There is a vortex that surrounds the concept of doom . . . No terror is greater than the unknown except the terror of the half-seen...