Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fact that Hatchett had been fired as a substitute teacher in the New York City schools for taking his sixth-grade class to a Black Power rally in memory of Malcolm X did not unduly alarm N.Y.U. It considered Hatchett's writings on Afro-American culture and religion sound enough to outweigh that error. But apparently no one at N.Y.U. had read a rambling, hysterical attack upon Jewish domination of the schools that Hatchett had written for the journal of the city's African-American Teachers Association. He charged that "antiblack Jews" and "their power-starved imitators...
Essentially, Nixon is trying to steer between the crass appeals to animosity of Wallace and the orthodox liberal approach of Humphrey. Eschewing concrete proposals, Wallace aims at his listeners' gut feeling that crime must be quashed by any means available. Nixon attempts to sound both alarmed and controlled at the same time, but the element of alarm seems to be winning out. He cites the FBI figures without qualification: "If the present rate of new crime continues, the number of rapes and robberies and assaults and thefts in the U.S. today will double...
...Brutal Showdown. Recently, dissenters in Russia have sounded the alarm that a return to mass terror is at hand. So far, however, the leaders have confined themselves to selective terror in an attempt to silence the most outspoken writers and intellectuals and to curb their influence on public opinion. Still, the regime finds itself in an impossible dilemma. Without a return to mass police terror, new voices will be raised in dissent as soon as others are stilled. But the regime knows too that the cost of restoring Stalin's terror would be incalculably high. It would reverse the effect...
When Selective Service announced last February that it would no longer defer most graduate students, academe responded with alarm. Harvard President Nathan Pusey complained that first-year classes this fall would contain only "the lame, the halt, the blind and the female." The Council of Graduate Schools predicted that most such classes would be slashed in half. Now most graduate school deans concede that their anguish was unwarranted, or at least premature. Fall enrollment will be surprisingly close to normal...
...Whiskered Bulbul, a crested Asian visitor freed from a rare-bird farm by a hurricane ten years ago, has begun to multiply. To the alarm of local growers, it has a marked preference for sweet, ripe fruit...