Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Expansion threatened a bigger, more impersonal College, and one way the Administration hoped to deal with this danger was by a strengthening of the House system. One method would be to reduce overcrowding, and figures like Elliott Perkins '23, Master of Lowell House, insisted that overcrowding should be reduced before College enrollments swelled. Another was to re-examine the basic amount of soul-searching about this issue...
This remarkably peaceful transfer of power was a tribute to an entire nation's controlled anxieties, to the sophistication of politicians skilled at maneuvering to the danger point but not beyond it, and to the correctness of the difficult man who asked France for vast powers...
...This kind of international hypocrisy should be abhorrent to Christians, and in its presence the Church dare not keep silent . . . We Americans are in danger of rejecting the heritage which made us what we are. With penitence let us confess that as a people we are becoming less interested in righteousness than in national security and international superiority...
...human circulatory and respiratory systems. But these suggestions emerged: a weightless man in space need not be witless if he has had time to recover from the probable dulling effect of massive g forces during blastoff; his reasoning powers should be unimpaired; he need be in little danger of injuring himself from muscular overshooting-neither of us overshot objects that we reached for, though we did our reaching gingerly...
...family. Unfortunately, the moviemakers felt obliged to provide a happy ending; but it could easily have been worse, and so could Silvana Mangano. Jo Van Fleet is first-rate, and Tony Perkins, a skillful young man who has gained his craft so easily that he may be in danger of losing his art, does the best work of his brief screen career. Chief credit belongs to the director, France's René Clement (Forbidden Games, Gervaise). He has done some of the vulgar things that the bankers believe the mass audience requires, but he has also been honestly concerned...