Word: harmfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Fowles is arachnid. In The Collector, his brilliant first novel, the central character is a spidery psychopath who ensnares a pretty girl and plays with her as a child plays with a doll, not consciously meaning any harm, until the poor thing falls apart. In his second novel, Fowles repeats his pattern but not his success...
...earlier this year forced cancellation of a speech on racial peace by former Little Rock Congressman Brooks Hays and subsequently prevented Negroes from holding civil rights demonstrations. Judge Wisdom left no doubt as to his own opinions of the Klan, branded defendant Klansmen as "ignorant bullies, callous of the harm they know they are doing and lacking in sufficient understanding to comprehend the chasm between their own twisted Konstitution and the noble charter of liberties under law that is the American Constitution...
...Board's policy, Shapiro commented, could severly harm the more serious British payments deficit and weaken further the unstable pound by attracting a new flow of funds to America from the London market for short-term security investment...
...generally used, stimulate the production of antibody in the blood, they seem to have little effect on multiplication of bacilli in the small bowel, where they do their damage before being excreted to infect a new host. Dr. Mukerjee is working on a vaccine made from live but harm less varieties of El Tor, which would be taken by mouth and would, he believes, protect the bowel...
...young lawyers, Eisenstadt and McDonough, School Committee seats can provide invaluable contacts. They will be in the public eye and in the swim of Boston politics, an excellent opportunity to extend their professional reach. The School Committee job probably hasn't done Mrs. Hicks's law practice any harm. Furthermore, the School Committee provides one access route to the City Council, which is a traditional source of Boston mayors...