Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Historic Error? "We are now in grave danger of being a permanent outsider as far as Europe is concerned," warned a letter writer to the Daily Telegraph recently, and the Economist noted last week, after De Gaulle's press conference in Paris, that "the British government cannot but have been painfully reminded how completely, for the moment, the power to influence events in continental Europe has been taken from its hands...
...danger of this middle culture," he said, "is that it may permanently debase our standards, as the revised Standard Bible has replaced the King James Version." MacDonald attacked J.B. for its "mid cult approach," which mixes dramaturgy, the Bible, and melodrama to produce a play that "works twice as fast as real poetry...
...harsh facts of the matter are that we have gone soft-physically, mentally, spiritually soft," said Democratic Presidential Candidate Jack Kennedy last week, restating a warning woven into his speeches since September. "We are in danger of losing our will to fight, to sacrifice, to endure. The slow corrosion of luxury is already beginning to show." Bejeweled and tuxedoed Hollywood Democrats nodded solemnly. As he introduced Campaigner Kennedy, California's Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown was attuned to the issue. Asked he: "Shall we allow a chromium-plated materialism to be the principal apparent goal of our national life...
...steel strike satisfies the Taft-Hartley requirement for evident danger to "the national health or safety" before an injunction may be issued. Contrary to union argument, said the court, the Government does not have to prove something as vague as "damage to national health," because the steel strike in fact imperils "national safety" by specific effects upon defense projects...
...Highest Tree (by Dore Schary) is a disaster of good intentions. The author of Sunrise at Campobello is writing in protest: he is one of the people who, aware of the danger of strontium 90 in the air, would ban further nuclear test explosions. Playwright Schary's central figure, Dr. Aaron Cornish (Kenneth MacKenna) is a famous atomic scientist stricken, very possibly because of his nuclear activities, with acute leukemia. In any case, after self-searching, he determines to spend what months remain to him urging an end to nuclear-bomb tests...