Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...something about abstraction such as poverty and the way we deal with poverty and childhood and the way we deal with childhood. There's always that tension between that imagination and that power of the mind and then the horrible world, closing off more and more doors. Now the danger of this is you can romanticize, you can fasten on to this in such a way that, politically, it can be used to say. "Now look how wonderful these kids are. Who wants to bother with them...
...National Religious Party told the Knesset how shocked he was when he saw TV reporting of "rabble" throwing stones at Peace Now demonstrators and then entering a hospital in an effort to prevent the injured from receiving medical care. Said Ben-Meir: "It is this that constitutes the real danger in Israel, not [P.L.O. Chairman Yasser] Arafat. Arafat we shall overcome...
...support in Algiers to give Hussein at least a tacit go-ahead. At the same time, he wanted to preserve a P.L.O. position ambiguous enough to satisfy the hard-liners who oppose the Reagan plan or any other concessions to reach a real peace in the Middle East. The danger was that the P.L.O., a loose coalition of eight groups that run the gamut from Arafat's own moderate Fatah organization to the hardline Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine led by George Habash, would emerge from Algiers even more divided than it already is. To guard...
Writing about ordinary life is hazardous; it may induce the boredom that is its subject. Munro defies the danger, and triumphs. -By Patricia Blake
...Once you go outside Ivy competition and you excel, there's danger that as an athlete of national caliber you may give the impression that Harvard is compromising the academic standards for its athletes," he adds. Phills cites Harvard's refusal to allow wrestlers a chance to work out in the gym during the off-season as an example of the university's attempt "to discourage athletic professionalism...