Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Washington are gonna be up to something rotten," so he may as well know what it is. If all of a sudden he stopped hearing about the corruption, he would be convinced that the government was hiding something, in which case it would be time to sound the alarm. The fact is that in the people's judgment, qualities of leadership have made a clean break from qualities of character...
...could be made that the show simply serves as an extension for the increasingly violent soundbites distributed throughout the country during the nightly news. But one thing is for sure: the sense of paranoia and dependence on law enforcement the shows induce is riveting, contagious and a cause for alarm...
Wednesday 1:12 p.m.: Students arrived at Sanders Theater prepared to sit through two hours of lecture for Literature and Arts C-37: "The Bible and Its Interpreters." Midway through the first hour, a fire alarm mysteriously sounded then suddenly shut off. Soon afterwards, the microphone stopped functioning. After replacement, the remaining lecture was punctuated with siren blasts from nearby fire engines...
March and April mean midterms, papers and job applications. Whither our biological alarm clocks? Where, praytell, is our spring fever, our raging hormones? Ah, you reply, this is Harvard and we forego such pleasures. After all, everyone knows there's no sex here. But to say that Harvard students are sexually repressed is platitudinous. For many years, Harvard's tireless cadre of dilettantish social critics and pseudo-intellectual newspaper columnists have decried the lack of "healthy" sexual activity at the College. Even the venerable New York Times jumped on the bandwagon. In a recent article on megatrends in college dating...
...from the report of this debacle. First, two innocent men were incorrectly identified as major terrorists. Their composite sketches were emblazoned in police stations and news organizations across the country; they were hunted down and detained from work, all because of one supposedly "credible" phone call. The alarm, it seems to me, had more in common with delusional paranoia than with reality. Nonetheless, this case of mistaken identity and mistaken crime is preferable to the counterfactual possibility (as my economics professor loves to elucidate) of lackadaisical standards of crime prevention. At least the Feds took national security seriously--if perhaps...