Word: harmfulness
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...Pleasure, otherwise known as Fanny Hill, the celebrated 18th century pornographic novel now freely available in the U.S. One of the principals "considered pleasure, of one sort or another, as the universal port of destination, and every wind that blew thither a good one, provided it blew nobody any harm...
...says, and the flashy type (Vittorio Gassman) comes bounding upstairs to use the telephone. Turns out he's a gay and charming playboy on the sunny side of 40, a colorful drone who buzzes from mistress to mistress, job to job, meaning no harm but constitutionally unable to consider anyone but himself, any moment but now. The young man (Jean Louis Trintignant) is the typological opposite: a self-swallowing introvert who buries his life in his law books and doesn't even dare say hello to the girl he secretly loves...
...mission in Venezuela for the last two years. Leaving his home one morning, he was greeted by four armed hoodlums, ordered into a white 1962 Chevrolet and whisked away. Soon after, a woman called the U.S. embassy to announce: "We just want him for propaganda purposes. We will not harm him." But then, as Venezuelan police hauled in more leftists, the phone calls turned nasty. The F.A.L.N. offered Chenault as a hostage: the colonel in exchange for 70-odd leftists recently jailed by the government. "Unless our comrades are turned loose," said the voice on the telephone, "we will...
...into legislation. And the only other substantive measure passed at the session is as much a step backward as the liturgical decree is a step forward. Last week the council railroaded through without discussion a schema on communications that tolerates state censorship of mass media, suggesting civil authorities prevent "harm to the morals and progress of society through the bad use of these instruments...
...private holdings in ranching and broadcasting, that he is on friendly terms with Texas oilmen and other big businessmen, and that he has boosted Texas by using his influence to seek business and to stave off attacks on the 27½% oil-depletion allowance. And it does him no harm in businessmen's eyes that as a U.S. Senator he voted "right" on labor issues less than half of the time by the estimate of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. "I expect," said Socony Mobil Oil Chairman Albert Nickerson, "that he will follow a middle-of-the-road course...