Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Writing in Encounter, Sociologist Riesman argues that the children of the lonely crowd-whether protesting the war or campaigning for Eugene McCarthy-reject adjustment to the mores of their affluent elders as "immoral compromise." But there is danger in their idealistic revolt, implies Riesman. Since most men are not "heroes or saints," he notes, the zealots of the new generation may have to modify their ideals. Otherwise, they run the risk of becoming "cynical about themselves or deluded about their society, or both...
There is still a danger that this week's march may be stained with blood, although the New Mobe promises to have 1,500 of its own marshals to keep the proceedings orderly. There will also be plenty of Washington police, practiced in riot-handling tactics, on hand. The Justice Department, concerned about the prospsct of hundreds of thousands of demonstrators parading by the White House gate, refused the marchers a permit to march down Pennsylvania Avenue. The department's negotiator, John W. Dean III, explained that there was "a substantial likelihood of serious violence." That refusal...
...Latin America will be beset by growing instability and an increased tendency to seek radical and authoritarian solutions. Rockefeller also warns that vociferous Latin American nationalism finds a tempting, natural target in the U.S., "since it looms so large in the lives of other nations." Against a backdrop of danger, the report stresses that the U.S. in its own self-interest must reaffirm its old, and unfortunately unfulfilled, goal of making the hemisphere a better place in which to live for all Americans, both north and south...
Teaching Prejudice. The growth of Southern segregation academies poses two distinct dangers. One is to the students who attend them. Pointing out that many of the teachers are segregationists who fled jobs in public schools to escape integration, the Southern Regional Council warns: "Their potential danger to the minds of children is enhanced because many of these schools at least tacitly approve of their prejudices." Often the approval is more than tacit: several segregation academies in South Carolina honor their graduates with diplomas and "survivor pins," which show a Confederate flag with the word survivor engraved across...
...other danger is to the public schools. The fear is that, as white parents continue withdrawing their children to private schools, they will become increasingly reluctant to vote bond issues and taxes for the South's public schools, which already receive less support than the schools of any other region. One ironic result: poor whites who cannot afford private schools may get a worse education...