Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fletcher, who was the last speaker, said that the elimination of fear as a restraint in sexual promiscuity mainly through modern methods of contraception and venereal disease control makes necessary the substitution of personal devotion and intuitive morality as more positive motives against a spread of illegal sex relations...
Last spring, Western Europeans criticized the U.S. for its "war hysteria." Recently, however, observers who have sampled European opinion have found a growing tendency to face the possibility of war. Much of the war talk was still simply an expression of fear; many people, feeling cynically certain that the catastrophe was inevitable, had no notion of doing anything to prevent war, or to win "it, if it came...
Chanted over & over to the accompaniment of clapping hands, this Song of Ram has for generations been Hinduism's most popular hymn. It was a favorite with Gandhi, who believed that mere repetition of the name of the god Ram was an effective means of banishing fear. Gandhi added two lines of his own to the song: "Ishvar [Hindustani for God] and Allah are both thy names; give wisdom to all." Gandhi encouraged the use of the amended version to promote Hindu-Moslem harmony...
Ironic Tale. Juan Suarez de Valero has three sons, one a great bishop, one a great soldier, and the third a baker. The concern of the churchman, his fear that his vanity is being appealed to, the confidence of the soldier, and his subsequent humiliation, the embarrassment of the baker at his unexpected prominence, and the emotion of the town at the thought of a genuine miracle occurring in its midst, are artfully handled. Once the miracle has happened, Maugham's imagination appears to have failed him; false notes become a little too frequent, and the introduction...
...drew the greatest applause of the evening with his defense of President Truman and the Democratic party. Admitting that it was difficult to become enthusiastic about the President, he rosted his case on Truman's role as the inheritor of the New Deal tradition. Howe discarded Republicanism in the fear that the economic basis of society will shift back to corporation interests, while he dismissed the Progressives on the grounds that they have "lost touch with the Liberal cause by their foreign stand...