Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Great Design School Dispute is apparently over, with no real harm done to anyone involved. A week ago, the controversy in the School's City Planning Department had all the ingredients of a classic confrontation: the cries of "faculty sellout" and "student extremism" made prospects for compromise look...
...Hence television is not used to broadcast a recent Vietnam teach-in. (How the dissemination of opinions differs from the dissemination of information is left unexplained, unless one assumes that the teach-in was totally devoid of any information whatsoever.) The renunciation of social obligation is the same; the harm wreaked is infinitely worse. Value freedom allows one to wallow in the mud without feeling soiled...
BRECHT: But none the less Heinrich, lieber Heinrich it is an honor when they do your work, wherever, whenever. As for however, why that McBain youth meant no harm in adapting your Master Builder. He only meant, no doubt, to give the idiom a more modern ring, and to snip away that overgrowth of symbols. There are such a lot of symbols in the play, Heinrich...
...justification for junior generals was always mysterious--they seemed at best a mechanical device for cutting down the number of seniors writing theses. The exams could have weakened junior tutorial, but with rumors of their impending abolition in the air, they probably did little harm this year as most tutors ignored them...
...best archaic, at worst ludicrous. When, after 37 years as poet laureate, John Masefield died last May, many Britons thought that the job should be abolished. Even London's Times, which occasionally prints official poems, only halfheartedly urged that the post be filled because "it does no harm and may, who knows, do good...