Word: fears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...core of each of MacLennan's people is a fear that perhaps he abuses his freedom--a suspicion that the Old Guard's standards of morality are rules that one must follow to assure the happy life. And we are left with a sense that no one can escape the guilt of his birth...
Part of this aggressive new policy should take the form of an "organic link" between allied powers, including an "interlocking community of command." "Then there would be no fear of America pulling out of any operation, such as there is in Germany at present." This linkage should include all aspects of "common life," combining joint economic institutions and cultural links, such as common recognition of university degrees...
...section of the book devoted to dissection of this personality will particularly offend academic readers. The professor finds himself described as "a moderate conservative in politics, clothes, and morals... satisfied with the world as well as himself... (diplaying) a deep sense of inferiority, fear, and maladjustment overlain by an almost fantastic sense of superiority... 'a harmless drudge'." Williams rightly says that he might have called his book: "Some of My Best Friends Were Professors...
Sweet Bird of Youth (by Tennessee Williams) is very close to parody, but the wonder is that Williams should be so inept at imitating himself. The sex violence, the perfumed decay, the hacking domestic quarrels, the dirge of fear and self-pity, the characters who dangle in neurotic limbo-all are present-but only like so many dramatic dead cats on a cold tin roof...
Spurring Skutt and Mutual on is the fear among private insurancemen that unless a free-enterprise way is found to insure the U.S. public against loss of income due to disease or accident, socialized medicine will take over. Flying more than 100,000 miles a year over Mutual's far-flung empire, and working six and sometimes seven days a week even when "vacationing" (as he was last week in Florida), Skutt has dedicated himself to proving that socialized medicine is not needed. The campaign is paying off. A few years ago the Federal Trade Commission took out after...