Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reaction to the Kennedy murder (see PRESS), most commentators rejected a blanket diagnosis of disease while at the same time refusing to completely absolve U.S. society and civilization for what had happened. John Kenneth Galbraith, no Pollyanna when it comes to national flaws, observed last week that "the greater danger in our day than violence is unfocused selfcriticism. Nothing so serves as an excuse from reality...
...ordered normality that may in fact never again exist in traditional terms. How deep and long-lived this trend to the right will prove to be can only be guessed at. A real test will not come until the election is decided in November. But it poses a danger for the short run because it serves as an excuse to block reform-and unreasonable resistance to change can lead to still more turmoil...
...same, steps can be taken to minimize the danger. For one thing, TV ought to be used more effectively-and at public expense to avoid domination by the richest candidates. Why not devote national network time to each major candidate for a full day or even two? For once, voters could view the whole man instead of fleeting images. On a more practical level, security can be sharply improved. Had the Secret Service been guarding Kennedy last week-as it will guard presidential candidates from now on-the route through the Ambassador Hotel's serving kitchen would have been...
...production of television specials and films, and Koppelman and Rubin are preparing a musical series for network TV next fall. Morton also plans to make television shows, publish a sex magazine and, he adds, become a movie actor. Among other things, these departures may be a hedge against the danger that grows with every year that a producer ages: "cooling," or losing the golden touch. But the way they are rolling now, these producers need not worry too much. When asked what they will do when they get older, Koppelman and Rubin reply: "We hope to be on the Riviera...
...adamant. "Reader's Digest has a point of view," declares Lewis, "and, it seems to me, has a right to its point of view. Funk & Wagnalls is not an independent publishing house but is our subsidiary." To which Baker, among others, retorted that this is precisely the danger facing book-publishing houses when they are taken over by large corporations, as Funk & Wagnalls was 2½years...