Word: dangerous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clark did not meet squarely the original question of Communists as teachers, but he did show eloquently the danger of Mr. Ober's philosophy: ". . . How could an effective 'closer watch' on 'extracurricular activities' be maintained unless the watch extended to conversations and correspondence? . . . What sort of a place would Harvard be if it went down this road? It would . . . not require six months to destroy the morale of both our teachers and students, and therefore our usefulness to the country...
...Away." Last week TIME Correspondent Sam Welles toured South Korea and got a net impression of hope-hope in the midst of danger from within and without, from Right and from Left. His report...
...look too bad at all; but since it takes two to produce one, the average '24 man and his wife are .26 below scratch. And, if a Harvard man were to marry the average Radcliffe girl, (who seems to be able to produce a measly 1.35 children) the danger, or extinction point, might well be approached. A Vassar girl might help matters somewhat: they're batting a fat 1.49, or tops among eastern college women...
Delegates at Blackpool did not try to play down the danger. Militant Aneurin Bevan was in a somber mood when he addressed a preconference rally. Said Bevan: "Some of our people . . . appear to have achieved material prosperity in excess of their moral stature. Some of them have got what they have got too easily and they are in danger of throwing away by a few months of dissipating anarchy what we have spent our lifetime in building...
Slichier stated that "the community, in the main, will remain laboristic," but he added, "business will recover part of the intellectual initiative which it has lost in the last generation. As a result, the community, which is in danger of being transformed from one in which business was dominant to one in which labor in dominant, will become a genuinely co-operative one in which management and labor contribute a fair share of the important ideas which win acceptance from the community and which therefore determine the course of history...