Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first reaction to the shock had been fear that his two children might see his bleeding body sprawled on the kitchen floor. "Thank God they didn't," he said. He was convinced that he had been the victim of a professional killer...
...soon (though WPIX and Chicago's WGN have arranged to televise some less ancient English pictures). One stumbling block is Hollywood's fear that television will kill its theater market; another is that release rights of recent films are wrapped up in expensive red tape. More important is the fact that television's purse is no match for its appetite. The top price tag for a radio program (around $25,000 a week) would not pay for two, minutes of a big Hollywood movie, and the entertainment budget of the entire television industry is not as much...
...worried radioman thinks that television is "a Frankenstein monster that will destroy its creator." But if the monster's rivals can't lick it, they are determined to join it. The industries that have most to fear are the ones giving it the most support...
...Fear of Change...
...make people want to learn is not a simple problem. Its chief stumbling block in local educational philosophizing has always been the fear that any change in the delicate balance of faculty and students would lead away from the independence of which the University and the College have been so proud. There is a thesis which implies that any change toward making people want to learn will mean a dean's office telling students what courses to take, or perhaps a psychoanalyst asking each man what he is thinking every...