Word: fears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Deploring the rampages of "Hollywood Indians," singing commercials in the midst of news programs, the shallow, five-minute news spots that leave no room for the "why," the networks' fear of the controversial, Murrow went on: "One of the basic troubles with radio and television news is that both instruments have grown up as an incompatible combination of show business, advertising and news. Each of the three is a rather bizarre and demanding profession. And when you get all three under one roof, the dust never settles. [We must] get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television...
...into print a statement that Pioneer had shown that the radiation belt around the earth falls off sharply from 4 roentgens per hour at 5,000 miles to 2 roentgens per hour at 17,000 miles, and that this meant that future space wayfarers should not have much to fear from radiation. But the project's scientists promptly warned that such apparent discoveries may prove to be the result of instrument failure or a drop in the power supply of the recording apparatus. The definitive report on Pioneer's findings may not be released for weeks or months...
...public has become obsessed with the fear of inflation." Thus last week spoke Dr. William C. Freund, economist for the Prudential Insurance Co. of America, in taking an unfrightened look at the bogeyman that haunts the U.S. economic revival. The worry that inflation is ready to start shooting prices up again is nowhere more evident than in the stock market, which last week reached a new high (see State of Business). But is the new inflation psychology justified by the economic facts? Answers Dr. Freund: "The stock market reflects a too acute awareness of the long-term aspects of inflation...
While economists agree that the fear of inflation is outdistancing reality, they manfully take part of the blame themselves. Says a top Government economist: "Some of us may have warned a bit too well. You can't flaunt a specter as vigorously as this one has been flaunted without scaring some people. I'm afraid a lot of our problem of inflationary psychology has been of the Government's own making." Even the Federal Reserve Bank, which waved the warning flag hardest, is having some second thoughts. Says a Fed spokesman: "As you look at the economy...
...there the moral bargain is struck, and in exchange for inner pain and penance he gets at least a peek at the way to salvation. Greene likes to separate these serious novels from the lighter ones, which he calls "entertainments." In these (This Gun for Hire, The Ministry of Fear) the action does not so obviously develop under the eye of God and the sinners do not even know that they need a salvation, but they go through the moral wringer just the same, and pay in some way for every foray against human conscience...