Word: harmfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these statements-which no other liberal Russian writer has made -some specialists feel that the present assault on Evtushenko is an exercise in overkill. "Why pick on Evtushenko?" asks Wayne State University's Vera Dunham, a leading specialist in Russian poetry. "He has never done anyone any real harm. It would make more sense to denounce the men actually responsible for putting Russian writers on trial, and examine the society that made Evtushenko what he is-a brash conformist and rather uncultured Soviet young man." Professor Dunham believes that his critics have no right to expect Evtushenko...
...invited to the inauguration. When he stepped off the plane back in Los Angeles, half the student body from his school was there to meet him with signs reading "HUNDLEY FOR PRESIDENT-1988." Craig liked that. As he is well aware, careers in show business did nothing to harm the political ambitions of George Murphy and Ronald Reagan...
...technicians in the Artificial Intelligence Lab is to build an "intelligent automaton" that could substitute for men on a Mars expedition. Carrying enough fuel to get to Mars and back seems impossible, so robots will have to go, explore, report back to earth and stay there (safely out of harm's way?). And since there would be a four-minute or worse radio time lag between here and there, communication would be difficult and the robot would have to be able to make his own decisions...
...Although Defense Attorney F. Lee Bailey admitted in court that DeSalvo was the strangler, DeSalvo's new attorney has denied it, and recently requested an injunction to block the film's release because his client might suffer irreparable harm. A federal judge denied the request...
...which make it impossible for him to comprehend rightly the situation, even with the mounting evidence that something is wrong and even when his own life depends on correct perception. He insists on the exactly wrong assessment--believing that Cereno's eccentric behavior signifies that the Spaniard intends to harm...