Word: dangerously
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Leary Commission, the Canadian publishers and their supporters appealed to Canada's deep reservoirs of anti-American feeling. Said a representative of the Periodical Press Association: "Canadians laugh scornfully when spokesmen of the Soviet bloc call us a U.S. satellite, but are we not in grave danger of becoming a cultural and intellectual satellite when our reading matter becomes so increasingly American?" In rebuttal, representatives of U.S. publications contested the notion that Canadian magazines were suffering unduly, noted that between 1950 and 1959 the ad revenues of Canadian magazines rose from $17 million to $40 million, faster than...
...then Allied occupation policy not only to enforce total disarmament of a nation that had thrice in 70 years invaded its neighbors, but to re-educate Germans to hate militarism. The Com munist invasion of Korea changed all that. The danger that limited war could start in Europe, too, led U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson, in September 1950, to propose the rearmament of West Germans under NATO command. (The Communists had already organized their East Germans in paramilitary "police" units...
...while thus far the Harvard proposal has avoided the most obvious pitfall--that of uselessness--there remains the danger of losing sight of the program's purpose. Any "peace corps" proposal must be directed to the real needs of the underdeveloped nations, not toward providing American students with an interesting social experience. For this reason, any project must be what the beneficiaries want and need, on the terms they find most convenient...
Under Sohn's proposal there would be no danger of either nation cheating, he explained, since the other might select one of the too-well-stocked regions for disarmament. There would be provisions to insure that arms could not be shifted from one region to another after the initial divisions had been made...
Then, there is the film's theme--I found, among many contenders, the conflict between Illusion and Reality most consistently referred to. Bergman seems especially fond of dropping hints that the real danger lies deeper than surface appearance. He emphasizes the unreal disguises of the magician and his wife as one of the reflections of this metaphysical concept--a crude and uninventive metaphor, I find. These admirable, is unoriginal, sentiments appear in a morass of conflicting counter-theories. Accident and the completely gratuitous introduction of the bizarre for mere effect add to the confusion--though they contribute immeasurably...