Word: perilousness
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Mark Twain for the prosecution: "Every time a Cooper person is in peril, and absolute silence is worth four dollars a minute, he is sure to step on a dry twig . . . the Leatherstocking Series ought to have been called the Broken Twig Series." D.H. Lawrence for the defense: "Fenimore Cooper has probably done more than any writer to present the Red Man to the white man." For the reader: the Library of America, offering The Leatherstocking Tales in all their flawed glory...
...retaliating. Experts note apprehensively that terrorist attacks, airplane hijackings in particular, tend to come in clusters. A new wave of unpunished terrorism could frighten Arab moderates enough to destroy all prospect of peace negotiations with Israel; that indeed may be the terrorists' aim. Moreover, American lives are already in peril: Brian Jenkins, a Rand Corp. expert, estimates that about a third of all terrorist attacks involve Americans, more than involve the citizens of any other country. Analysts have worried in the past about the U.S.'s acquiring a reputation among terrorists and governments that support them as a target that...
...second peril is the possibility of a loss of faith in the U.S. economy by foreign investors. In the past three years more than $250 billion has flowed into the U.S. from abroad. That money has been a big help in financing the federal budget deficit, which will top $200 billion this year, and keeping interest rates from rising. If foreigners sharply reduced their investments, the dollar might plunge much more steeply than it already has, and interest rates would jump. While noting that some experts fear such an event, TIME's economists think that the odds are against...
Broadway, to its peril, has increasingly gone the way of the movies: it has become a business of megahits and instant flops, of shows that either stake a claim on immortality ("Now and forever" the Cats slogan boasts) or die within days. It costs so much to keep a play running--from $80,000 to $150,000 a week, not counting TV advertising--that unless the reviews are raves or a large advance sale provides a cushion, skittish investors often decide to cut their losses by closing worthy shows right away rather than struggling to survive and recoup...
...riveted on joblessness as a prime problem of the black community. But after the cities cooled down, attention waned, even though unemployment remains high. Since blacks have gained more political power in major cities, the danger posed by youth unemployment today does not seem to be mass violence. The peril is rather that thousands of young people are drifting into a netherworld of unemployment, welfare and crime from which they will not escape. Says Frank Slobig, director of the Roosevelt Centennial Youth Project, a Washington-based group: "We are creating a permanent class of young adults who may never overcome...