Word: fears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Americans would dare say about their country what Author Maritain says-for fear of being accused of extreme patriotic partiality, even of jingoism. But France's Jacques Maritain loves America. And, unlike most European (or American) intellectuals, who are apt to be apologetic or patronizing when they praise the U.S., Maritain proclaims his love with unstinted ardor. Having taught in and known the U.S. for almost a quarter of a century, Philosopher Maritain is familiar with America's authentic face and voice; yet he remains enough of a stranger to stress truths that are overlooked or taken...
Anxiety and fear, the commission granted, lay a man low, and therefore "many sick persons are in need of assistance which medical science in itself cannot supply," but in cases of so-called spiritual healing "there could never be established scientific evidence which would compel the conclusion that it was the spiritual content of the ministrations which had brought about the cure." In an appendix on "Christian Science and Spiritualism," the commission characterized Christian Science as "in clear conflict with the Christian Gospel," and added that "had the Church faithfully and intelligently carried out our Lord's commission...
Regardless of what the Russians do, the U.S. dollar is already getting its roughest ride in years. And it looked as if it would continue as long as foreign nations fear that a budget deficit estimated at $11 billion or more next year will bring on new inflation in the U.S. and inevitably cheapen the dollar...
...remaining 79 years of his life, Calouste Gulbenkian caught precious few glimpses of gutters, particularly since in young manhood he developed the habit of sprinting from a rented limousine to the door of his destination in morbid fear of assassination. As he became a legendary oil financier and fabled art collector, Gulbenkian also kept on collecting what he most loved: money. When he died in 1955. his five-shilling piece had grown to an estimated $420 million, his annual income to $14 million...
...Grotjahn, associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Southern California School of Medicine, who thinks that / Was a Teenage Werewolf, Blood of Dracula, etc. provide a means of "self-administered psychiatric therapy for America's adolescents.'' His cathartic argument: "Certain childhood anxieties never die. Fear of ghosts, fear of witches, fear of the dark, the sinister and the mysteriously terrible-these stay with the adolescent. There are three ways to overcome them: psychoanalysis, nightmares, and terror movies, [in which] old childhood anxieties are activated, given life and a form of objective reality on the screen...