Word: alarmism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hope that it transcends the personal and the private, and has something to do with the anguish of us all." If you haven't seen these plays yet, they are worth viewing, even in inferior productions. For Albee's private yowl is rightly and readily translated into a public alarm. By catapulting us with his vision of the world, Albee dares us to change this vision: to feel, and to love, and to care...
...Disclaimers. Last year's New York prayer decision stirred widespread alarm-not so much for what it said as for what people thought it said. Misled by headlines, many thought that the court had all but ordered an end to all ties between government and religion, even chaplains in the armed services and the motto "In God We Trust" on the currency. Such fears are, to be sure, given some substance by a small but militant fringe that insists upon a total erasure of all traces of religion in government. Last week, for example, the American Civil Liberties Union...
...years. And in North Carolina-where Fred Link fell fatally wounded under the feet of a mob-the mayors of Winston-Salem, Durham and Charlotte announced that dozens of restaurants in their towns had quietly canceled policies of segregation. Thus, while national leaders fretted and found causes for alarm, the inexorable process continued...
...mailboxes, police checked out some 500 leads without making an arrest. But then came a hot tip, and the cops finally pounced. At week's end in Montreal's jails were 17 Front de Liberation Quebecois "suicide commandos," caught with the tools of their trade: cheap alarm clocks, wires, electrician's tape and sticks of dynamite...
...changes in the judiciary, the relationship between federal and state governments, and even the stability of the United States Constitution." President Kennedy agrees. Asked what he thought about the amendments, he replied: "The efforts will come to nothing, and I will be glad." With such powerful voices sounding the alarm, it appears that that durable old structure, the U.S. Constitution, is in no danger of burning down...