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Peaceful Heights. Above the danger zone, most experts hope, lies an unknown but safer range. Airplanes that could accelerate (and decelerate) fast enough to pass safely through the enormous supersonic room would have to behave like bullets or shells, leaving harmlessly behind them the sound waves their motion creates. But no one knows at present how to get over even the perilous threshold without suffering disaster...
...baseball fanatic is much safer than a Communist."--July 18th Issue Issue of "Ave Maria," national Catholic weekly published by the University of Notre Dame...
...accidentally invited to the banquet, Acheson began his address, "Lady and Gentlemen." He quickly passed to a more serious vein in an analysis of two basic dangers threatening the country. One he labelled the psychology of controversy, perfected by Hitler, which achieves unity by hatred. "And no controversy is safer than one with the foreigner," he explained." His defenders at once become suspect. So a field which is difficult enough, where more than anywhere widespread agreement is essential, becomes a peculiar prey to controversy...
...ability to see the picture without grave danger, a person might make a fair judgment of his own moral strength and weakness based on his inclinations, his intellectual development, his past experience, etc., but the safer course would be to submit the problem to his confessor. . . . All this may seem like a very difficult and complicated process, especially to those who are accustomed to attend a picture without giving the matter a second thought, but it seems to be the only solution that can be logically drawn from Catholic theological principles...
Franz Schoenberner, who now lives in New York City and is working on another book, was reared in the rarest air of German intellectualism. Son of a Berlin pas tor, he was subject to spasms of brattish rage, until his adoring mother taught him how much safer it was to hurl abstract arguments instead of "all kinds of physical objects." By the time he was 13, sharp-witted Franz had logically argued his sisters into incurable neuroses, and ruled the household with an "intellectual regime of terror [that] would have been impossible in any other atmosphere than that...