Word: enlightenment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson should examine each quotation and ask whether it adds a unique and knowledge perspective. The Crimson should work harder to ensure that reporters and editors inform and enlighten debate with facts, rather than serve as a microphone for campus quotations...
...claim: that ethnic organizations could be justified only to the extent to which they promote diversity by fostering deeper intercultural understanding, dialogue and interaction. Culture shows, panels and discussion groups all contribute to that end. But the agreement that Harvard's ethnic groups should serve to educate and enlighten was coupled with the understanding that two main obstacles undermine this general purpose...
...debate. By arguing that this was a simple matter of human rights, the editors oversimplified a complex political issue. Students were either for human rights and therefore on the side of good, or in service to their palate and therefore servants of evil. A newspaper should serve to enlighten its readers, not to tell them what to think...
...other leftish incursions. So the committee's recommendations have been ignored--and the committee was just disbanded by the new superintendent. After a rancorous school-board meeting in October, a board insider took Hawley aside. "You folks are getting a reputation," he said. "You're always trying to enlighten...
Mahayana Buddhism, which caught on in China, Japan and Korea, sustained the Four Noble Truths and the practice of meditation. But Mahayanans saw the Buddha as a divinity to whom prayers could be addressed. They also revered--and hoped to become--bodhisattvas, fully enlightened, Buddha-like beings who had won the right to enter Nirvana but chose to be reborn on earth to enlighten others. A cornucopia of Mahayana offshoots sprang up over the centuries. Zen, which was adopted by the Japanese samurai class, combined chanting and teacher-student dialogue with an extremely strict sitting meditation practice, often enforced with...