Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cause for reflection that through these stories ran a strain of warning about the danger to Dr. King. The 1957 story commented on how he "unflinchingly faced the possibility of violent death"; when he was Man of the Year, it was clear that "wherever he goes, death hovers in the form of crackpots...
...Lyndon Johnson could walk, he would run for a second term. But in the months preceding his withdrawal, his problems mounted relentlessly. The nation was so divided over Viet Nam that it was no longer possible for the President or many of his Cabinet members to travel without the danger of a rowdy demonstration. Another summer of racial riots in the black ghettos seemed certain. The U.S. dollar was being brutally battered by foreign gold speculators. Not least among the factors affecting his decision was the unforeseen strength of Senators Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy in their challenge...
...Richard Neustadt, director of Harvard's Institute of Politics, observed last week: "It never hurts to walk out at the end, instead of being carried out." And Lyndon Johnson, realizing that he was in danger of being carried out, chose the more graceful exit...
...spiritual health, a harbinger of renewal. To be sure, there is the possibility that these unstructured groups might coalesce into a new kind of gnostic sect-an elect that considers itself set apart from the erring mass of nominal believers. On the other hand, there is the far greater danger that institutional Christianity, without an extraordinary amount of reform, will end up as a monumental irrelevancy. Faced with a choice between the church in its present form and the underground cell, it is likely that a majority of Christian thinkers would opt for the small, unstructured community as a likely...
...reporting that traces back to Thucydides, the ancient historian whose account of the Peloponnesian War is depressingly relevant today. Thucydides was no polemicist either, but his message was clear: the exercise of power, however necessary it may seem, can lead a city-state-or a nation-into unforeseen danger...