Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...BENDA is one of those writers who view the present state of the world with-alarm. His mildest predictions of future disaster foresee the disappearance of higher civilization from the face of the earth. His gloomier fore-boding envisage a universal war sufficiently perfect to accomplish the destruction of the human race itself. Having arrived at these conclusions he then sets out to discover the forces which make them inevitable...
There is no editorial comment on the interviews, such as one might expect, and the editors might have seen fit to put in. It would have been easy to spoil things by inserting, at the end of the chapter on student morals, some tongue-clucking viewing-with-alarm. But no; you can read confession and revelation, and decide for yourself...
Pointing with pride at prosperity, viewing Tammany with alarm, the G. O. P. of New York State went into convention at Syracuse to choose men to help dislodge the Brown Derby from its native perch...
...alarm is sounding and all who can see further ahead than tomorrow (I believe nobody who cannot see at least fifty years ahead has a right to govern a nation) are worried. . . . The whole of urban Italy shows a birth deficit. Not only is there not equilibrium, but deaths exceed the births. We have reached a tragic phase of the phenomenon. The cradles of our cities are empty and the cemeteries growing...
...will be of little avail to take alarm at the statistics. If Radcliffe has over whelmed the sneers of a decade, and emerged from a chrysalis of contempt as the most alluring fata Morgana for several thousand potential bachelors, what use caution...