Word: threatenings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lowell House undergraduates are holding an open forum with members of their Senior Common Room tonight to discuss the three issues that they say threaten to lead Harvard to a violent confrontation between students and Faculty...
...Adson's way of thinking the question was this: If a gallstone is detected while it is still silent and causing no trouble, should it be removed immediately and prophylactically to protect the patient against possible future illness that might threaten his life? Weighing present risk against future peril, and after examining thousands of recorded cases, Adson rather cautiously concluded that prophylactic surgery is sometimes justified. One case in point: a patient under 65 who has coronary artery disease; the risks become far greater, said Adson, if such a patient has to have emergency gall-bladder surgery later...
Through one of the disquieting coincidences which threaten to reduce criticism to an exact science, 1883 was the natal year of a pair of Czech novelists whose lookouts on the problem of monolithic authority and what to do about it are presently very much in point. In a country which has earned its reputation as the common stamping ground of optimistic power, Franz Kafka and Jaroslav Hasek came to know the texture and stink of vast administratives schemes so vicious, irrational, and irremediably tacky that they generate comedy and tragedy, like industrial waste, in awe-some volume, beyond...
...cherish the sanctity of the spoken word as does Charles de Gaulle, especially when he has spoken it himself. Three weeks ago, when an exodus of francs began to threaten the stability of France's currency, De Gaulle loftily dismissed the possibility of the franc's devaluation as "the worst absurdity." Almost no one believed him. Speculation against the franc continued to mount until it neared crisis proportions, threatening to unbalance the entire, delicate mobile of the Western monetary system. The money managers and bankers of Europe and the U.S. assembled in Bonn in an emergency session...
...come to bear his name. Russia, he said, has the duty and the right to intervene not only in Communist countries like Czechoslovakia that are within the East bloc, but also, for that matter, in "any socialist country" where the forces of imperialism and capitalism and bourgeois revisionism threaten to make a come back. In repeating the justification for taking over in Czechoslovakia, Brezhnev cited a novel new source: an unnamed U.S. magazine that had outlined "precisely what was expected" by the West in Prague had not Moscow moved...