Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Each teacher naturally believes in the relevance of his own discipline, but he worries at times. Speaking of the smaller departments, Professor of German Jack M. Stein wonders: "Is there not then a danger that these will become even smaller and the larger ones even larger?" Professor Samuel P. Huntington suggests that the once dominant academic culture is being supplanted at Harvard by a new "political-activist" counter-culture...
Combat inevitably sharpens both emotions and rhetoric. It is an incendiary combination to be young, black, armed, 10,000 miles from home and in persistent danger of death in "a white man's war." When the men return to "the world," their perspective may shift, and doubtless many black soldiers will become so busy with their own affairs that their militance will fade somewhat. Even in Viet Nam, 53% of the black men interviewed said that they would not join a militant group such as the Black Panthers when they return to the U.S. Says Major Wardell Smith...
...larger scale, though, the persistent growth of euphemism in a language represents a danger to thought and action, since its fundamental intent is to deceive. As Linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf has pointed out, the structure of a given language determines, in part, how the society that speaks it views reality. If "substandard housing" makes rotting slums appear more livable or inevitable to some people, then their view of American cities has been distorted and their ability to assess the significance of poverty has been reduced. Perhaps the most chilling example of euphemism's destructive power took place in Hitler...
...dean, May plans to emphasize improving communications among various members of the University, especially on matters of curricular reform and the role of the Houses. "One has to do what one can. This place is in some danger. It is the greatest university in the world, but there is danger of its not remaining so," he said, explaining his reasons for assuming the deanship...
...have a year like last year, a certain number of Faculty members will be leaving-that's the worst danger we have to apprehend," he said...