Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young people, the elders would and do say, have lost the pioneering spirit. By this the older generation means that the country's youth have tried of leading lives of rigid discipline, though danger seems as near as ever...
...might rosily dream of the day when all little children could grow up together to love and understand each other at integrated schools; and their main objection to segregated schools seems to be that the children aren't growing up to love and understand. Blunter Northerners see no real danger in separate-but-equal schools; just like blacks marry blacks and whites marry whites, they say, people want to be with their own. Why force them together...
...federal courts introduced the Freedom Of Choice plan. To outsiders, it didn't sound too threatening. It just said that any student could choose to go to any school he wanted; it seemed like basic American individual choice and everything good. But in the South, it posed an immediate danger: it meant that BLACK CHILDREN would be coming to the WHITE SCHOOLS. The white South had to act fast...
...direct confrontation with about 30 functionaries of the Writers' Union, headed by the regime's literary spokesman, Konstantin Fedin. Solzhenitsyn charged anew that his manuscripts had been stolen by the KGB, that publication of Cancer Ward in Novy Mir had been held up so long that there was danger of samizdat copies making
...danger of overindulgence in superstition is that it breeds a kind of shortcut thinking. Already, TV commercials verge on magic: how does a deodorant differ from a love potion? Already, the incantations of New Left and New Right extremists echo the irrational chants of sinister shamans. No one has ever been hurt by tossing salt over his left shoulder; many have felt a vibration of personal peace by crying "Om!" The trouble is that superstitions, like Occam's razor, cut both ways. Before Western man gets any more mystical, perhaps he should distinguish between superstitions that destroy tranquillity...