Word: harmlessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...citizens afflicted with rhinoceritis, a disease which not only makes them change into rhinos but actually makes them want to turn themselves into these strong, aggressive, and insensitive pachyderms. Only Berenger remains immune from this metamorphosis, for he is a special misfit, committed to nothing but pursuing his own harmless pleasures. At the end the whole world has gone over to the rhinos and he is left totally alone, musing on the sad fate of the nonconformist ("People who hang onto their individuality always come to a bad end"). Half-inclined to join the pack charging up and down...
...taking a walk around the block or hitting someone, the alcoholic has learned to find relief by reaching for a drink. What has been learned can be unlearned, Schaefer and Sobell insist. As proof, they point to their high cure rate, which is achieved with the aid of a harmless but painful technique: electric shocks for those who drink too much too fast...
Another drawback of the Vernon reactor is its operational requirement to release low-level radioactive liquid and gaseous wastes from time to time. The AEC contends that these wastes are harmless. But a recent paper has shown remarkable correlation between changes in infant mortality and radioactive gaseous discharges in Illinois in the area surrounding the Dresden No. 1 power station (a BWR of one-third the capacity of Vernon) over the past ten years. Dresden's annual effluents ranged from 34,860 to 800,000 curies from...
...musicals, of course, can be fun if you're in a tolerant frame of mind. I've seen plenty of stupid little shows in the past ten years, and they have not been without their small pleasantries. In any case, they are at least harmless. Rhinestones in the Rough, on the other hand, demands no tolerance, for it is nasty and insulting. The sniggering in Page Grubb's book is aimed at women, radicals, and (for reasons I fail to comprehend) Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...Government interference with socially harmless private conduct is repugnant to our tradition of personal liberty and has led to dubious police practices which a democratic nation permits at its peril...