Word: fears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Northern papers: "Nothing could have occurred that would go further to establish the point that a federal anti-lynching law is necessary and that the state is incapable or unwilling to accept the responsibility of prosecuting lynchers . . . Every citizen who expects protection of himself and for his family should fear for his safety if this is the true climate of opinion in Mississippi...
Armed with powers second only to those of the President himself, Amer arrived secretly by destroyer-a security measure made necessary by the fact that the United Arab Republic is separated by Israel-and promptly went to work on the Syrian army. It was suffering from the familiar fear of Syria's 4,200,000 citizens that they are about to be reduced to a parity with Egypt's poorer 24,800,000. "My brethren," cried Amer, "be cautious of the intrigues of the opportunists and of destructive rumors." There was nothing, he added fervently, to the rumors...
...working newsman double in brass as a working public personality without fear of embarrassment? To some who busily try, the answer came last week...
...other major performers are mostly wooden or inconsistent. In the first act, Daniel Markowich (Osvald Alving) fails to suggest any of the intense fear which must haunt him. After one convincing scene--when he tells of his disease--Markewich's performance again trails off until, toward the end, his hysteria occasionally appears a joke...
...Death. But Clyfford Still, 54, pushed on into abstraction with never a backward look. He treats art as an apocalyptic vision, refuses to let visitors (even buyers) inside his door, recently turned down the offer of a one-man show at Venice's Biennale because of his professed fear that it would be misinterpreted as catering to "the praise of Vanity Fair." "A painting in the wrong hands is a highly dangerous force," Still hints darkly, "just like a mathematical equation...