Word: fears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been less fortunate, however, in its relations with students. The corporation had been in the planning over the summer, and when its existence, a well-kept secret, was announced as a fact last Fall, cries of alarm and fear arose from those who were to be absorbed into the new organization...
...lifting it. His gloved hands froze to near helplessness. Under his seat was the armed, unexploded powder charge that had failed to fire his seat out of the cockpit in the early bail-out try. "You're so numb, I don't think there's any fear at all. You're just numb...
...Stiller, he struggles to deny the existence that the same world imposes on him. And, as in The Castle, the setting and characters in I'm Not Stiller may be understood symbolically as well as really. Sam's "prison" is his own fear. The "border" at which he is arrested divides fantasy from reality. The "prosecuting counsel" is the accusing finger of a wronged husband; the "defense counsel" is the part of Sam that longs to be at peace with the world...
...cuts have been opposed by the Administration, which nourishes a fear that the government will be unable to meet deficits if revenues are reduced. The value of a tax cut is questionable, but not for the reasons Eisenhower proposes...
...supposing that a cut did release a greater proportion of current income for consumption purposes, it is doubtful that this money would in fact be spent. Most likely it would be used to meet outstanding credit obligations assumed during the past boom, or possibly it would be saved in fear of continued economic uncertainty...