Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these rules should not hinder the noise and color that help a man advertise his thoughts. If a man wants to speak his piece with the aid of a brass band at some reasonable spot at a reasonable hour, regulations should not stop him. The Deans need have no fear that the florid oratory of an undergraduate can ever injure Harvard's name...
...Negro, guilt haunts the whole U.S., South and North. But the North's guilt is glossed over by the hypocritical assumption that it has "solved" the Negro problem-in principle and on paper. Behind the South's gloss of "states' rights" is defiance and fear...
Wrote Geoffrey Gorer, British anthropologist and journalist, in the Georgia Review: "They are haunted by fear of rape; but though this is mostly envisaged in the crudest physical shape, it is probably a second spiritual violation which they dread even more. Terrified of being overwhelmed by violence, they use violence and the threat of violence to avert this disaster...
That revolt could be dated roughly from October 1947, when President Truman's Committee on Civil Rights dropped a match into the dry and prickly underbrush of Southern pride and fear. Franklin Roosevelt had always been careful to keep any such brush fires from spreading. He had imposed FEPC in 1941 by executive order, as a temporary wartime measure, which had angered the South. The South had flared up over Mrs. Roosevelt's well-meaning efforts on behalf of the Negro. But F.D.R., who did more to impose federal authority on the states than any man since Lincoln...
Past Radcliffe-Harvard athletic relations have generally centered around crew, and during the war a Radcliffe eight scored an upset win over a Harvard beat. The Misses Jaffe, Reed, and Trygstad were hopeful that this feat could be repeated, but expressed fear that if they lost, crew custom might prevail in which case they would be forced to give their shirts to the victorious Harvardians...