Word: harmlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hobbies take up much of Sorokin's spare time: music and gardening. "This is a bad year for azaleas," he laments. Then brightening, he adds, "At least gardening is more harmless than going as an export to Washington...
...periodic (and apparently harmless) muscle spasm in the soft palate, at the top of his throat. The sound of the muscle twitch is carried along the Eustachian tube, as along a speaking tube, and is heard as a clocklike tick outside. The specialists assured themselves that the muscle twitch in Jack's throat, which they could see, was perfectly synchronized with the tick, which they could hear...
...Vicious Circle's gags ran from harmless to vicious. Dorothy Parker, who once hung up the sign MEN on her office door because she was lonely, was also one of the champion acid-throwers. Said she to a lady writer who bragged about holding her husband for seven years: "Don't worry, if you keep him long enough he'll come back in style." Franklin P. Adams was generally somewhat kinder. Asked how Harold Ross, no beauty, had looked tobogganing over the weekend, F.P.A. replied: "Well, you know how he looks NOT tobogganing...
...Friday, at three in the afternoon, the day and hour of the Passion, Godfrey of Bouillon stood victorious on the walls of Jerusalem . . . After 70,000 Moslems had been put to the sword, and the harmless Jews had been burnt in their synagogue . .. the bloody victors ... ascended the Hill of Calvary, amidst the loud anthems of the clergy; kissed the stone which had covered the Saviour of the world; and bedewed with tears of joy and penitence the monument of their redemption...
...important point is that athletics, as a part of the "whole man" education, must be an end in themselves and not be operated either as a business or as a sideshow. Slight deviations from this standard may seem harmless, but there is no difference in intention between them and the outright purchase of football players. Even "traditional rivalries" are more expendable than education, and should not become the criteria of a football policy. If a traditional rival prefers the rarified air of the Top Ten to strict compliance with the rules, then it is useless for Harvard to attempt...