Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ourtain falls on a stage covered with assorted corpses, an old man--one of the survivors--says "I didn't mean no harm," a statement which can be applied to Irwin Shaw and Peter Viertel, to the management of the Harvard Dramatic Club, and to almost everybody production. Shaw and Viertel, who wrote "The Survivors," far from meaning harm, appear to have attempted to creste an allegory for our times, a dramatization of the concept that unreasonable hatred and stupidity make nations, as well as men, wipe each other out of existence. But the play itself adds up to little...
...town's dirty politics are now the backbone of the reform. Says Roberts: "Pendergast had civic leadership constricted. He even controlled the Chamber of Commerce. Good and able citizens took no part in the city's affairs. If they bucked the machine, they were liable to personal harm. When the machine broke down, we had a flood of new blood. Where there were a few civic leaders a few years ago, there are now scores...
...listeners were literally stunned to silence. In the stillness, Chiang spoke again: "I know that for the party to choose a nonpartisan as a presidential candidate is not ordinary practice in democratic party politics. But it should not harm us to try it. Remember this is all a great experiment for us in constitutional democracy...
...Harmful? If a "Dr. Binsey" made a scientific survey to prove that 99 out of 100 boys steal, said Father Harold Gardiner, S.J., an editor of America, parents would not demand a change in the larceny laws. Demanding a change in laws regulating sex on the basis of Kinsey's findings is just as senseless, he said; moral laws are unchangeable. The book may do harm Father Gardiner thought, because "indiscriminate knowledge improperly acquired and applied is an incentive to a lack of virtue. . . ." It would be far better, said he, if the Kinsey report were in the hand...
...geographic line against Communist expansion and back it with a military guarantee, were disappointed and wondered what could happen next. Wrote the London Times: "If the American Congress and people, already excited and alarmed, do not respond promptly and in full to [this] appeal for practical measures, more harm than good may well be done. Flames already high will be fanned, and the fire extinguisher will still not be fashioned. . . . But if the politicians and citizens of the U.S. do respond with firm deeds . . . new history will be made...