Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rhythm . . . At every point of concentration of these high-tension moments of bravura phrasing . . . there is a disappointing absence of resolution in an image or pictorial incident, for all their magical diffusion of power . . . Certainly Pollock has carried the irrational quality of picture making to one extremity . . . And the danger for imitators in such a directly physical expression of states of being rather than of thinking or knowing is obvious . . . What does emerge is the large scale of Pollock's operations...
...season (TIME, Jan. 31). The track had been a quagmire much of the meeting, but sun and 1,000 tons of beach sand had finally dried it out. Most of the dozen four-year-olds were in patently poor condition. Ace Admiral quickly took the lead, was never in danger of being headed, and won by half a length in 2:02⅓. Said Jockey Johnny Gilbert: "This colt is going to be tough to beat in the [Santa Anita] Handicap next month...
...atomic plants now abuilding will be safeguarded carefully. The pile at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, 65 miles east of Manhattan, will operate only when there is enough wind to dilute its radioactive cooling gases below the danger point. Elaborate studies are being made by the U.S. Geological Survey to make sure that no radioactive wastes get into Long Island's water supply. The "hot" uranium slugs from Brookhaven's pile will be put underground to keep them from making trouble...
...director, Dr. Glenn L. Archer, former dean of the Law School of Kansas' Washburn University, was encouraged by the success of last week's meeting. In an "Address to All Americans," his organization declared that recent events "have aroused a substantial body of public opinion to the danger that threatens religious liberty as guaranteed by the separation of church and state . . . In a recent public pronouncement issued by the National Catholic Welfare Conference and signed by American cardinals, archbishops and bishops, the hierarchy brands the separation of church and state a 'shibboleth of doctrinaire secularists...
...Actually it is a kind of inarticulate interpretation--the one that is both curious and ominous. It implies that we are being attacked and that we must defend ourselves. The phrase "peace blitz" has even been used here and there recently; it emphasizes this implication. But just where the danger lies in such a "blitz" is peculiarly unclear. Nor is it clear how, in the name of peace, you can defend yourself against the "blitz...