Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thus, not thus, neither is this Thou," the abstraction is fatal. It will make the life of lives inanimate and the love of loves impersonal. The naif image is mischievous chiefly in so far as it holds unbelievers back from conversions. It does believers, even at its crudest, no harm. What soul ever perished for believing that God the Father really has a beard...
Said Russell: "I cannot refrain, even if it does harm to the Senator from Illinois, from expressing to him my great admiration for his political courage. It gives one hope for the future of the Republic to see a man who has convictions and the courage to sustain them even though it may endanger his seat in the Senate...
...interested in both the physical and emotional care of the child, and I also wanted to write a book that did not scold the parent. Too many authors say 'Don't do this, you'll harm the child; watch out, you'll kill the child ...' I wanted to encourage and reassure mothers...
While there is obviously harm in allowing young children to read some of the books that the Commission has discussed, protection of "community standards" should not take the form of orders whch prevent all sale and distribution of a book, especially since "distribution" has been interpreted to include libraries. There is no effective way to keep "questionable" books only from children, however, and any enforcement of standards must rest with individual parents...
...Johnson had hoped to demonstrate decisiveness in foreign affairs, the curtailment of aid was not the way to do it. Not only can his rigidity cause immediate harm in Latin America and Europe, but in the long run it may make a conservative Congress even more reluctant to accept necessary, flexible measures. The trade embargo simply will not isolate Cuba economically. By seeking to enforce it unilaterally, Johnson has succeeded in alienating our friends without hurting Castro...