... one important aspect to the pandemonium, and that would be fear. As described in Webster's Dictionary, fear is a feeling of anxiety and agitation caused by the presence or nearness of danger, evil, pain, etc. The people of Salem, the setting for The Crucible, were deeply afraid of witches and the devil. Their fear of curses and the powers that witches supposedly possessed ... afraid of espionage. In May 1942, the assistant chief of the Army's Western Defense Command's Civil Affairs Division wrote: "In the case of the Japanese, their Oriental habits of life, their and our inability to as...

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... the setting in which "truth" is seen as an achievable state. The modern professions emerged from this milieu as occupations concerned with the moral and technical mysteries of life. The exemplars of the professional model were medicine, the law, and teaching. The successful professions lay claim to areas of expertise that were used to define what is normal or "right," mediating the client's individual needs and the values institutionalized in society. The ... , and lack of intellectual seriousness, is almost always seen as a fall away from these standards. The Republican Party consisted o...

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