Word: phobias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...actresses, Maria Schneider, Marlon Brando's co-star in Last Tango in Paris, so objected to her own nude scenes that she walked off the set and was replaced by an unknown English actress, Teresa Ann Savoy. McDowell believes that Last Tango gave Schneider such a phobia about nudity that she could not appear in a movie like Caligula...
Better Service. Now France's phone phobia is rapidly disappearing. After Giscard's election in 1974, one of his first acts was to have a modern telephone console installed next to his desk, and he uses it often. Other Frenchmen are beginning to want more phones too. New orders rose to 1.3 million last year, up from 291,000 in 1968, and a consumer group has been formed to lobby for better service...
...Harvard community without discarding one's blackness, Jewishness, Catholicness, femaleness, etc. The role of a given institution--a university, union, corporation--in facilitating this dialectically intricate pluralism does not require, however, total surrender of its native subcultural attributes, its particularistic tendency. It need only forgo the nativist phobia: the fear that pluralism (coexistence of values, forms, styles) necessarily destroys particularism...
...Jews at Harvard to insist that securing these groups' presence in universities of different cultural origins and distinctiveness required the latter's extinction. Thus, in the model of American pluralism, as Notre Dame adjusted over time to this model its Catholic leadership is required only to surrender its nativist phobia--its fear that having Protestants, Jews, Muslims, etc. among us will destroy us, deny our cultural distinctiveness...
...become a serious concern in these nations, and greater stimulation would increase the danger. While the U.S. worries about a return of double-digit inflation (see box), prices are rising at an 11.7% pace in Japan and at a 6% rate in West Germany, where inflation is a national phobia. Symptomatically, West Germany's Social Democratic government recently announced a $2.3 billion spending program to combat rising unemployment, but coupled it with long-term austerity measures to limit the inflationary impact...