Word: fears
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fear of being isolated from the outside world is perhaps the second major factor which encourages professors to get away. Like many students who are concerned about being shut up in an ivy tower, they may fear that the Harvard environment shelters them from the realities of life, fosters parochial attitudes, and stifles creativity...
This conflict points to an issue crucial to the power plant controversy: Harvard argues that it must continue construction at a fast rate or costs will skyrocket, while power plant opponents fear that the extensive construction only serves to strengthen the University's case for a reversal of the DEQE decision. Bracken said University officials involved with the construction "are moving ahead as fast as they possibly can--the more they put in, the more difficult it will be to stop them."Mission Hill residents last April delivered a petition against the Medical School Area power plant to President...
John Skow, you say that Dick Yates' new novel A Good School [Aug. 21] is first-rate, acute and impeccable and then slap him down somewhat scornfully at the end. You say his work comes close to fear, whatever that's supposed to say as a literary evaluation. I would have thought you'd applaud that cautionary nerve in Yates when we have so many books so bravely fearless and forgotten. Fear is a quality to be admired in a writer of Yates' integrity. If he has fear, how can the rest of us afford...
...escape his past, so far as Hardy is concerned, and Henchard's obsessive fear that his secret may be found out causes him not only to remember the past, but in a sense to repeat it, and the drama unfolds from there. When criticized for his unlikely scenarios, Hardy said that he was interested not in plot but in character. Playing Henchard, Alan Bates adds another finely molded performance to his credits. Strong and weak at the same time, his Henchard has the un stoppable vitality of the attacking bull he wrestles to a standstill...
...Irish Torquemada with a face like a fist and a voice out of Warner Bros, cartoons. He ran J.F.K.'s 1960 campaign in a manner that suggested, reasonably enough, that winning mattered most. As an activist Attorney General with a brother in the White House, he inspired more fear...