Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...REAL DANGER with the discipline rationals is that discipline will become the rights-buster that national security often is. If administrators must maintain some amorphous discipline or national security "posture" to prevent spaced out students from rioting or nuclear holocaust, then what right, what protections, exist? In this case, only a rumor and an anonymous phone call transformed a U.S. constitutional right into a Soviet style promise, redeemable only in a world of lofty words and glorifies lies...
...danger of the lab to the public is far smaller than the danger of a pesticide store." Weedon said, adding that the amount of hazardous chemical used in the lab's experiments "averages about one tablespoonful for each test...
...example of how Americans and Russians differ. And yet, in our haste and paranoia to restrict information in the name of national security, we sacrifice the enduring values of our society, blurring those distinctions. When the Reagan directive becomes law in April 1984, perhaps we will recognize its inherent danger to personal freedom. If not, George Orwell's haunting vision of the future will come uncomfortably close-to reality...
...general, the repertory of the past half-century has been a closed shop. Thus the Met has the Sisyphean task of producing and reproducing the same roster of familiar works. When the Met was young, many of today's warhorses were new; but now opera is in danger of becoming a dead art, remembering the past yet still condemned to repeat...
...rose and fluttered independently, articulating a sweetly deranged sign language. Ralph Richardson was no matinee idol?no ethereal saint like John Gielgud, whose beautiful voice could coax meaning out of a computer printout; no demon lover like Laurence Olivier, with hellfire in his eyes and the coil of sexual danger. Sir Ralph walked the earth, with sure, heavy strides. When he left it last week at 80, his place was secure in the triple crown of great English actors whose work spanned and illuminated the century...