Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lined up on Massachusetts Avenue, grinning obscenely down over Harvard Yard, there is a row of intellectual brothels... Their grip has tightened until they threaten to constrict all the life and vitally from the Harvard system . . . They are making a mockery of a Harvard education, a lie of a Harvard diploma...
...Epidemics threaten to sweep over Europe this winter with no institutions to check them as the League of Nations did at the end of the last war," Serge Fliegers, now doing graduate work at the University and formerly a European war correspondent, stated last night...
...result in its scuttling by its own officers. German occupation of the rest of France would mean that French colonies, deprived of a homeland, would drop like plums into British hands; France's one powerful trump card is negative-when German conditions press too hard, she can always threaten to throw up the sponge...
...fragile thing," a delicate compromise between privilege and the masses. But "a democracy that is to wage totalitarian war must end economic and social privilege as the price of victory." With a serene twinkle Professor Laski views the dilemma of the middle classes. On one hand, the fascists threaten them; on the other, so do the masses. Says...
...Modern civilization." explains Maritain, "pays dearly today for the past." Marx, Nietzsche, Freud have "unmasked" the rational, optimistic bourgeois citizen. Social disorders threaten to engulf him, mocking his errant faith in Progress and Enlightenment...