Word: harmful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearly extinct Central African Federation. Required by tradition to read the speech drafted by the local white government, Lord Dalhousie, resplendent in a plumed cocked hat and silver epaulets, delivered a sharp rebuke to Britain because it "has betrayed the people of the federation and has done them irreparable harm...
...views on another departmental matter, the proposed plan to give sophomore tutorial for credit, are of a piece with his concern for individual privacy and scholarship. Tutorial should give an opportunity for "leisured reflection" and study whenever possible, he says, and a needless grade at the sophomore level does harm to this philosophy. This comes from a man who has a deep respect for the individual scholar pursuing his own curiosity at his own pace in the university...
...Revolution, by Hannah Arendt. In a shrewd study, Historian Arendt examines the long-held notion that revolutions cure social ills, concludes that most of them do more harm than good...
...only withholds help from the raiders, but actively discourages them. Washington thinks that the raids do Castro no real harm, and in fact, encourage the Russians to keep their troops in Cuba. Last week, acting on information provided by the U.S., British authorities in the Bahamas seized a 35-ft. raider boat named Violynn III. The crew of 17 had been bound on a mission to land arms on the coast of Cuba; then they intended to seek out a Russian tanker and attack it with 20-mm. incendiary and explosive shells...
Earlier, McNamara had told Arkansas Senator John McClellan's Senate Investigations Subcommittee, which is holding the TFX hearings, that "I think there is going to be tremendous harm done to many individuals as a result of this hearing." He left no doubt about who he thought would be hurt the most. The hearings, as reported in the press, he said, imply "that I am either subject to political influence, self-interest, or stupid...