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Word: dangering (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greatest danger facing the writer of such a "critical autobiography" (once having donned the rosy lenses of enthusiasm) may well be losing the ability to distinguish the sincere practitioners of a faith from the charlatans. However, Cox explains that his own involvement in such practices as meditation actually had the reverse effect: he found himself less tolerant of people such as students of Buddhism, who ostentatiously carried around their meditation cushions and bragged about transcendental experiences, than he had been initially...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Benares on the Charles | 1/18/1978 | See Source »

...Eastern faiths. Acclimation (to a certain degree) is inevitable in the spread of a religion. Few observers, however, have stressed enough that, as Cox would say, "when the gods migrate, or are transported, to a civilization where everything is to some extent a commodity, they become commodities too." The danger here lies in the potential reduction of these new faiths to products of a "profit-oriented culture" such as the psychological theories Cox discusses in the chapter entitled "The Pool of Narcissus: The Psychologizing of Meditation." Discussing the use of terms such as "investment" in people or psychic "dividends...

Author: By Diana R. Laing, | Title: Benares on the Charles | 1/18/1978 | See Source »

Thus pressure is growing for the New Jersey Casino Control Commission to move faster, before any investors go bust, or turn to mob moneylenders. The danger, of course, is that a combination of greed and need will overcome caution and good intentions, making it easier for the underworld to penetrate legal gambling in Atlantic City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Trouble in Las Vegas East | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

...would have a government of the left in 1978. "We had everything going for us last spring and summer," a 19-year old student and Socialist Party member from Marseilles explained last week, "but then the party leaders made mistakes. They refused to compromise, and now we are in danger of being defeated...

Author: By Brian L. Zimbler, | Title: High Anxiety | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

...moment at least, French politics have reached a stalemate. The left cannot cooperate in order to implement its reforms; the right is in danger of losing control of the government if public economic woes bring the left to power. Both sides are worried about the future and uncertain whether they will be able to win at the polls in March. At present, it seems unlikely that the left will come to even loose agreements on policy before the elections. Mitterand extended an olive branch to Marchais last week when he stressed that his party and the Communists did agree...

Author: By Brian L. Zimbler, | Title: High Anxiety | 1/9/1978 | See Source »

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