Word: fears
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard representatives have demonstrated consistent poor judgement and insensitivity in making decisions," the letter charged, citing as examples the recent zoning proposal, as well as scheduled evictions of tenants from Harvard-owned buildings and a faculty mortgage-loan program city officials fear will dry up available housing...
Paul F. Walker, research fellow in the Center for Science and International Affairs: I would agree with Professor Bernstein on that. But there was really a three-pronged reason for normalization. Number one was the inherent Chinese fear of Soviet military forces massed along the Sino-Soviet border, and Chinese desire to play the "American card" in a sort of balance of power game. I think the second reason was clearly Taiwan, to entice the United States away from the Taiwanese--certainly to the detriment of Taiwan, from the Taiwanese viewpoint. The third reason is that the standard of living...
Smith goes on to describe the day-to-day relations between police and blacks in the county: "As it is, the black community has a great deal of negative feelings, fear and fright of the police. Harassment such as police stopping for imaginary traffic violations and then offering the option of jail or a ticket is commonplace...
Black and white policemen, he adds, "coexisted like Russia and the United States." Other black policemen did not want to join a union because of fear of reprisal and criticism from white colleagues, Austin states...
...comparatively restrained performances in The Great Gatsby and Smile teeter devastatingly on the brink of an explosion. But in his all-out roles--in Silent Running, Black Sunday, Coming Home-- Dern makes an art of modern crack-up: shaking, sobbing, barnstorming, often hitting false notes, losing control, making us fear that both the actor and the character will spill over simultaneously, capturing the peculiar self-consciousness of a real-life breakdown, where neither the "audience" nor the "actor" knows where the pain ends and the performance begins...