Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Somehow," McGuire pleads, "we must come to understand that morality is really essential to the solution of major problems. Community cannot be founded on negatives: on fear or some temporary alignment . . . Man, even in his work, does not live by bread alone . . . His nature is not wholly filled or expressed in the production and consumption of bread and beer and radio sets and patent medicines. He has not his answer or his end in these. They cannot ease his discontent...
...conceded, but too often they ignore human emotions. Everything would be fine if only a patient could calmly accept the idea of an operation. But patients almost never do. Most people have psychological weak spots and most surgical patients are "apprehensive, anxious people, reacting emotionally rather than rationally." They fear death (many make their wills just before an operation), pain, disfigurement, loss of function. The fears are as much a part of the patient as his gallstones or diseased appendix...
Brinton claimed that Churchill is attempting to utilize the fear of Russia in order to create a western European "super state" which Britain would dominate. The new state would then act as the balance between the United States and Russia...
Viewing the necessary common bases for a North Atlantic community, Brinton emphasized the necessity of outside pressure in order to start any alliance or federation of sovereign states. He claimed that the fear of Germany and Japan was instrumental in forming the United Nations and that fear of Russia may cause an all-powerful third state in Europe...
Besides common fear these qualities consist of a "common educational heritage a common reaction to law enforcement, and a common basis of political and economic systems...