Word: fears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Professor Lazarsfeld was commissioned to find out whether the hysterical chauvinism of the early fifties created fear, inhibition, or conformity among scholars. The question is certainly legitimate, but the answer is not readily found by taking a poll...
...Fear, inhibition and conformity operate primarily by determining what questions we will decide to ask, not what answers we will give. It is very easy, for example, to decide not to lec- ture on Russia. If you tell yourself that you don't know about Russia, or that it is not pertinent in this course, your personal integrity is never at stake. But once you decide to investigate Russia with your students, it is much harder to lie to them without losing your self-respect...
...committee's mahogany table, refused to answer questions. This provoked North Carolina's courtly Sam Ervin Jr. to a rare outburst. "It is a tragic state," said he, "to see a man who comes in the shadow of the Capitol of his country who cringes in fear...
...tremendous crisis might arise in the world with an indefinitely growing population." Noting that people in Europe and the Americas were "getting frightened at the prospect of the masses of Asia becoming vaster and vaster and swarming all over the place," Nehru conceded that it was "a legitimate fear...
Besides many technical details about the thalamus, the Boston researchers have learned a surprising, basic fact: thalamotomy (as the operation is called) works exactly opposite to lobotomy-it relieves the pain itself, but not the reactions of anxiety, suffering and fear of death...