Word: harmfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...belief of long standing concerning sex-segregation. Western culture as well as so-called primitive cultures has recognized roles and activities which were distinctively "male" or "female." ... ritual myths and taboos were invented in certain cultures concerning the contaminating effect of women and their magical ability to injure or harm man.... I feel that the attitude of the Deans toward sexual intimacy is another expression of the myth that women distract or contaminate men through sexual attractiveness...
Further, he favors the earliest possible "liberation" of the satellite countries and supports a tough policy aimed at ousting Castro from Cuba: To fear that U.S. interventionist policies would harm our international standing is "patently ridiculous...If this so-called world opinion were worth courting, it certainly would not countenance Communism with its history of violence, slavery, and oppression...
Once he made his discovery, Dr. Pruitt began a loud vocal opposition to the AEC's Project Chariot, which was a plan to use nuclear explosives to blast a spacious harbor in the Alaskan coast. The side effects, he said, would harm the Eskimos even more. Although he was fired from the university, he continued to make all the noise he could about the danger of feeding more fallout into the Eskimo food chain. The AEC's present management now watches the Eskimos carefully and measures their body burden as it creeps ever higher...
...second limitation, which excludes living writers of poetry and fiction, does not harm the library nearly so much as the first stricture. All the same, it is an unnecessary restriction. Presumably, the White House did not want to involve itself in any tiresome little literary wars, and therefore decided to wait until poets and novelists are safely dead and buried before venturing to choose among them. If this was their reasoning, though, why didn't they exclude living political scientists and historians, too? In the academic world, where publishing a book is a condition of existence, professional jealousies, if anything...
Fortunately, the treaty is so innocuous that oversights of this magnitude do no harm. But the Senate, for its own sake, should conduct a debate extending equally to all the important questions which the treaty raises. Narrowing the debate principally to strategy and weaponry forces both sides to parrot the data and analyses of outside agencies and individuals. Both sides surrendered some of their independence when they act as a clearing house for the views of others. Proponents slight the treaty's importance by permitting opinionated experts to inflate minor uncertainties into forboding obsessions. In the process, the proponents neglect...