Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Precisely because we did not attempt to judge these things on the basis of legal or moral principle, we were in a position to discriminate geographically in assessing the degree of danger these communist efforts presented for us. We were at liberty to regard the possibility of a communist take-over in one of the world's great industrial countries as more dangerous to us than a similar take-over in a small weak country whose resources could scarcely play an important part in the power balance, regardless of whose grounds they were. We were at liberty to concentrate...
...think the one-semester election procedure represents a danger," Steven D'Arazien, Managing editor of the News, said last night. "It puts political pressure on editors who know they will come up for examination in the middle of the year...
...early 20s, soon to be married. The Pap smear taken at a premarital examination discloses some suspicious cells. Since their source is not precisely pinpointed, standard practice would demand removal of sizable cone-shaped sections of tissue from the cervix and perhaps its entire lip, with the danger of forming scar tissue that could close off the uterus and leave the woman infertile...
...Unfortunately, the anti-war movement itself is involved in these public-relations images, and is likely to be seriously demoralized, both by the escalation and by the disappearance or substantial retreat of Congressional opposition and other established dissent....There is a very real danger that frustration is leading to feelings of imponence which may immobilize potential organizers. Nonetheless, we believe that the anti-war movement is capable of making a significant, immediate response in the face of the new situation and that it must do so if it is to maintain its integrity and its identity as an independent force...
...shrinking world and the revival of the Catholic ethic are desirable goals for McLuhan, he is apparently not at all sure that they can be achieved quickly and without pain. The danger arises from mankind's obsession with the past. We look at life through a rear view mirror, McLuhan says, and we are unprepared for the roadblocks ahead. The real hero of Understanding Media and The Medium is the Message is James Joyce...