Word: harmlessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...becomes Compton's Jonah. They form a curious but substantial relationship, a fraternity based on fear and frustration. Joe takes Compton to a bowling alley, and Compton shows Joe the fashionable Ginger Man, passing Joe off as a top-drawer adman. Slowly, Compton's harmless, homogenized ideas and civilized manners give way before the barbaric force of Joe's fury. "Sometimes when I'm with Joe," Compton tells his wife, "I feel almost as if I'd performed a humanitarian...
...argot of the drug world, it is "paraphernalia": the necessary accouterments to merchandising heroin. The small glassine envelopes, or "bags," used to package heroin are paraphernalia. So, too, are the legal, harmless powders used to dilute the drug, usually quinine, dextrose, lactose or mannite. According to a House Select Committee on Crime investigation in New York City, peddling paraphernalia has grown into a $5,000,000-a-year business...
Even swinging London, that myth invented by journalists, was harmless enough fun-pink frosting for a cultural revolution. Or was it? Booker does not think so. Behind the charming impudence of miniskirts and rock music, behind the justified indignation of Angry Young Men, he detects a less presentable motive: the "thrill that may be derived from sensing a sudden violation of tranquillity or order...
...protection seems satisfactory. Chemical warfare against the snakes could also kill off such harmless but ecologically essential animals as rabbits, deer and hawks. Burning off the hills would also kill indiscriminately and create potential flood conditions. Someone has even suggested that the suburbanites keep wild turkeys and hogs, traditional enemies of rattlesnakes...
...since the story of the Third World today must be that of an angry anti-colonial revolution working itself out, our liberal commitment to order, although apparently harmless at first glance is objectively counter-revolutionary. And we attack the CFIA because we believe that no force, no matter whether it wears a uniform or not, has a right to tamper with the process of social liberation that revolutionary change opens up to the people of the old colonial empires. And of course we have learned from Vietnam what the next step is if peaceful counter-revolutionary attempts fail...