Word: perilousness
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...merely part of the week-long "Destruction in Art Symposium," a festival of happenings being staged across Lon don by 40-odd (some very odd) artists from ten countries. The symposium was dedicated to the sobering proposition that "society will ignore the manifestation of destruction in art at its peril...
...Violently racist, it demanded laws to protect the unskilled and often illiterate Afrikaner laborers against the "indignity" of working alongside blacks, hammered home the theme that Strijdom was the only man who could save South Africa from the swart gevaar (black peril). So anti-British was the paper that it cheered Hitler and protested South Africa's participation in World War II. The only mention it made of the visit of King George VI in 1947 was a note warning its readers to avoid certain Johannesburg streets, which would be jammed with traffic because "some foreign visitors" were...
...middle years can be wise and felicitous, they can also be foolish and frantic, fraught with nerve-frazzling doubts and despairs, somber with peril and melancholy. The middle-ager usually knows better than to stay up till 4 a.m., but he sometimes finds himself waking up at 4 or 5 a.m. in a swivet of inexplicable panic. He has reached the age of what T. S. Eliot called...
Whatever the immediate peril - pow er failure or transit strike, water short age or race riot - New York City, like Pauline, invariably manages a third-reel deliverance before crisis turns to catas trophe. The city's latest ordeal, a dearth of funds that has threatened imminent, crippling reduction of municipal services, was averted last week as usual at disaster's doorstep...
...lurking suspicion that manned flight is somehow unnatural and inherently dangerous. The hazards are always magnified. Just as the Sunday driver tends to minimize the difficulties of the crowded highway because he himself is at the wheel, in control of his own destiny, the air traveler often exaggerates his peril. He has put the responsibility for his life into the hands of others-pilot, ground controllers, even weathermen-and his unease is understandable. When word of a crash hits the headlines, he inevitably asks himself the question he has asked so many times before: "Is flying really safe...