Word: gravely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week Dean Acheson dropped a bombshell-an explanation of Yalta that was a strange and startling contradiction of the "brotherly-fellows" theme of the older story. "The grave danger," said Acheson, ". . . was that [the Russians] would really wait until the [Pacific] war was over and until we had expended our effort and blood to win the war, and [then] they would come in and do what they wished...
...once the committee doors swung shut, Acheson's questioners, Republican as well as Democratic, settled into the attitude of grave decision that had dominated the investigation from the start. The Republican members, however noisy the blood cries of their colleagues outside, were courteous, dispassionate and earnestly in search of answers. Often, they avoided pressing partisan advantages...
Kohlberg sent the letter to every member of Congress (Lieut. Evans had given him permission to publish it). The Navy, getting wind, let out an outraged howl at so blatant a defiance of regulations, convened a Board of Inquiry. Last week the Navy found Lieut. Evans guilty of "grave misconduct" for his abusive language and breach of clearance regulations, stripped him of his commission, and gave him a discharge...
...that "his Life of Wu Hsun . . . showed that reactionary thoughts of the capitalistic class had seeped into the Communist Party." Far from being a hero of the people, Wu was a dangerous fool "who did not realize that his suffering was due to class oppression," and who committed the grave error of turning for help to the rich. Besides, the movie showed him pleading during a peasant uprising: "Killing people-is that the right thing?" China's Red spokesmen, who believe that it is (see above) concluded: "Wu Hsun behaved in a quixotic manner. His course...
...same time, however, the project carries certain grave dangers. Unleashed alumni who track down only football players could do the College much greater harm than those who overlook the athletes and other schoolboy leaders and hunt solely for scholars. Probably the basic questions to be faced are whether everyone has the same definition of "Balance in the college" and whether everything about Harvard's new program is helping to meet this goal...