Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contrast, there were those who chose to fight, knowing the danger of their actions, and others who really had no choice. Pryce-Jones buries his own description of the resistance movement and the Jewish community under a mountain of detail. He is unfortunately fascinated by the various underground groups and their foes in the German and Vichy hierarchy. But the heroes speak well enough for themselves...
...experiences in journalism have concerned the most sensational mass murder spree since Lizzie Borden took up her axe, the Atlanta child murders. In covering that story, Oney had to make the moral judgments a journalist must in any situation where the desire to scoop other reporters conflicts with the danger inherent in leaking sensitive information...
...passion. If only, if only, if only. It's not just that it's unrealistic, it's also that it turns whiny after a bit. Tsongas's justification is that disaster looms--the metaphor he uses throughout the book is a canoeist approaching a waterfall, who must recognize the danger in time and act sensibly by plunging into the chilly water. Our junior senator is the man standing on the shore yelling, "Turn back." It's the fear of fast water; the fear that should the center not hold mere anarchy would be loosed upon the world, and that mere...
...belongs to Gayle Baney Whittier, who teaches French literature at the State University of New York, Binghamton. Her short story Lost Time Accident, which opens the collection, sensitively records a girl's growing awareness of the life her father leads, exposed at his factory job to chemicals and danger, and of her first intimations of the meaning of love. Medical Student David Hellerstein's A Death in the Glitter Palace is affecting in a more harrowing way; it describes the ordeal of a Vietnamese immigrant woman whose initial cancer may have been turned into something more deadly...
...Gethsemanes of exhaustion. Today, burnout is a syndrome verging on a trend. The smell of psychological wiring on fire is everywhere. The air-traffic controllers left their jobs in part, they said, because the daily tension tended to scorch out their circuits (the primitive "flee-or-fight" reaction to danger squirted charges of adrenaline into bodies that had to remain relatively immobile, tethered by duty to scope and computer...