Word: fears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finding arguments for believing our own notions of truth. Huxley's New-Time Religion offers no heavenly crown, or elated promises of a glorious hereafter. His is but a religion of the real world, a religion where the individual would be free from the spiritual bondage of ignorance, fear and anxiety. Such a religion excluding the mythical world of the hereafter will gain few converts. PAUL G. HUGHES Lowell, Mass...
...Daniel ("Tubbo") Gilbert, often called "the richest cop in the world," he was fair game in the Chicago guerrilla war. But Roger got along until Matt Kolb was murdered by Capone bullets (Capone sent a $100 wreath to the funeral). After that, Touhy began to live in heavily armed fear, hired guards to protect his suburban home...
...HATES BRITAIN BECOMES GOVERNOR GENERAL, headlined the Daily Mail, and the Daily Herald printed a front-page editorial protest that the Queen should have to receive "the organizer of South Africa's color bar Police State . . . the man 8,000,000 Africans fear . . . who has preached flogging ever since he became Minister of Justice." Added the New Statesman: "He does not hide his detestation of the British connection and his determination to break it. This man is now to kiss hands, receive the seal of office and thus become the official repository of British honor and approval" in South...
...Nyerere to their shoulders and draped him with garlands of flowers after the Governor's announcement in the Legislative Council. All that night, green-shirted members of his Tanganyika African National Union danced in the streets and sang party hymns. For once, colonial officials did not need to fear a fervent nationalist display, for Nyerere has won the confidence of most Tanganyika whites, who admire the patience and moderation with which he has conducted the campaign for self-government...
From now on, there would always be the memory of the fear she experienced during her experiment with blindness. After weeks of work, Actress Bancroft was beginning to understand that last dimension of the role for which she was preparing. Already a part of her was onstage, creating with incredible vitality a superior human being: half-blind Anne Sullivan, whose stubborn skill lit up life itself for a deaf, blind and mute child named Helen Keller. Already, Anne Bancroft was The Miracle Worker of Playwright William Gibson's impressive new play (TIME...