Word: harmfulness
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Meanwhile, some of the harm already done will not easily be repaired and may have far-reaching impact. For many years, the industrial nations have been releasing chlorofluorocarbons into the atmosphere, not realizing that these chemicals were destroying the ozone layer, which shields the earth from harmful ultraviolet radiation. Because of the vagaries of air currents, ozone depletion has been most severe over Antarctica. It was the discovery in 1983 of an "ozone hole" over the continent that first alerted scientists to the immediacy of the CFC threat...
...Gender Forum held the following Wednesday night. He and others assured us that they had not planned the table ahead of time, or decked themselves out specifically for the event. They did not talk about How to Get Laid at Harvard. And most importantly, they did not mean any harm...
...aware. If you want to stop offending people, you have to be willing to realize that nice guys can be prejudiced, too. You have to be a little more willing to change your ideas about the world. Why? Because if you really didn't mean any harm, and you do want someone to explain all of this to you, you'd better prepare yourself to hear a lot of anger. And you'd better be ready to listen...
...SUPPOSE that the first step in getting the Men's Table guys to listen is for us to listen to them, to believe that they mean it when they say they didn't mean any harm. Personally, I do believe that. However sincere, though, "I didn't know" is not a good apology. A good apology will come months down the road, when they can finally say that they understand why this incident was a bigger deal than they'd bargained...
...some might think. The '50s and '60s landscape was one of atomic optimism on the go, of Sputnik-like motels and space-race tail fins. The style captured an attitude of innocent adventure in a TV fantasy of stucco and neon. Could Wally and the Beaver come to serious harm in a drive-in with a giant ice-cream cone for a roof? George Jetson, it seems, could have been the master architect of the whole doo-wop decade. Granted, one thing to be said for those stylistic oddities is that they extended a warmer welcome than much of today...