Word: harmfulness
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...male social organizations and the fact of their excluding women prompts suspicion, nowadays. But, in most circles, that unfashionable behavior (the basis, I presume, for the charge of bigotry) is seldom criticized as other than anomalous so long as there is no reason to think non-members suffer serious harm. Grossman says nothing to explain the secrecy he finds objectionable. The Clubs' self-proclaimed social purpose is enough, apparently to assure him of their "hedonism" and "selfishness...
...problems is neither glib nor blindly optimistic. His desciption of the clean-up of the devastated site of a Hooker Chemical Company plant in Michgan tempers hope for restoring a savaged ecosystem with a realistic sense of what can't be done--of political inertia and of the irreparable harm that has already been done...
...What harm can come from a compromise that allows officials to help set the book's editorial policy but prohibits them from meddling in the actual preparation?" well-intentioned bystanders might...
Plenty of harm could come from such an arrangement, if the faculty's track record is a reliable indicator. For example, when the Faculty Council the faculty's steering committee, asserted its prerogative to dictate CUE Guide policy in 1976, the results were less than constructive. The Faculty Council ordered the CUE Guide staff to strike a seemingly innocuous but eminently relevant question from its student questionnaire...
...intrinsically flawed, anti-Constitutional and potentially dangerous Question 3--no matter how well intentioned--could do more harm than good...