Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rhythm Section. To feel Gulbenkian's anger, an acquaintance once said, was "to know the electric chair without death." The danger signal was an open-palmed slap, slap, slap on the bald dome, often followed by the saliva-flecked roar, "You are a broken reed I" If Gulbenkian was something of a solid gold Scrooge, he also had Scroogian fears. According to Young, the sordid 1920 murder of a Manhattan pawnbroker named Gulbenkian, no kin, scared him out of ever visiting the U.S. He reputedly kept a ton and a half of gold in his London safes, presumably against...
...partisans of abstraction were equally upset. With U.S. abstract expressionist art shows now winning an international audience,-they feared that the U.S. at Brussels had been trapped into scattering its fire, was in danger of losing the initiative already gained. Art News Executive Editor Thomas B. Hess labeled the U.S. representation at the fair a comical scandal, lacking in seriousness. He called for an all-out showing of the serious abstract painters and sculptors who "in the past 15 years have exerted an international influence, from Japan to Rome...
...winning them to Christ, and . . . should be prepared to surround the
converted Jew with the community of Christian love."
...with most apparent panaceas, there is a great danger in this one. In the universal search in a community for harmony and co-operation with everyone, everyone must compromise, and frequently the wrong things are compromised. Most high school newspaper editors, for example, have known the frustration of desiring to print a piece of perfectly legitimate news which the faculty adviser bans on the grounds that it will "make the school look bad." Frequently, principals insist upon reading copy for the paper after the adviser has done so, making sure that it contains nothing that could be possibly be construed...
There is little danger that further advances in the quality and variety of regular school courses will push bright students into an "academic shell."The queen of Horace Mann Homecoming graciously receives a bouquet of roses after her crowning. Her highness and the members of her court wear corsages to indicate they were elected by their schoolmates as the most popular and attractive senior girls. Coronation ceremonies occur at half-time at the season's biggest football game. Like Harvard, Horace Mann rarely wins a football game and rarely cares...