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Where is our pride? We export technology. Why can't we import ways to make streets safe? We spend billions to protect ourselves from the Russians, but it is the street gangs in America who frighten me. It's law-and-order and freedom from fear that allow a nation to survive, and I say no money for New York and other cities until they restore safety to the streets. I'm mad, sick at heart and disgusted with weak Government officials...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 20, 1976 | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

...Doth frighten only milk-sop mewling boys...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fragment of 'Paradise Lost' Regained | 12/14/1976 | See Source »

...example, were the rivalries among the various nationalist leaders. And while a hefty black laundress insisted that Smith "must go, for he is a racist," she emphasized that "most Europeans [whites] must stay, otherwise we will have no jobs. We must show them we can run things and not frighten them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: THE WHITES:'TIRED OF RUNNING' | 10/11/1976 | See Source »

...Schroeder chose to make a political film in and about a country whose language he does not speak. But it is even more unfortunate that, rather than avail himself of the services of an interpreter, he deliberately utilized the language barrier, apparently to place particular emphasis on Amin's frighteningly shallow, misinformed, and warped worldview. The effect however, is not to frighten, but to amuse...

Author: By Eric M. Breindel, | Title: Taking the Easy Way Out | 9/24/1976 | See Source »

...from favor cut the ruler off from what Drury assumes to have been her steadying influence. Akhenaten mated with several of his daughters in an effort to sire an heir. These dynastic couplings resulted only in a succession of stillborn female infants. Meantime, the priests of Amen continued to frighten the people expertly. By the novel's end Akhenaten has not actually reached his downfall. A sequel is promised, however, and things look dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Son of the Sun | 8/16/1976 | See Source »

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