Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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America imposes the model of a life in which you are supposed to struggle to the top. Society then imposes collective moral sanctions against anyone who does not accept the hysteria. But if you don't accept the model, you are lost as well as hated. You are not so much ostracized as left to find your own way. There's no-where left to walk if you refuse to climb their ladder...
Several resolutions were before the Faculty. A conservative response, written by George B. Kistiakowsky, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry, severely criticized the student takeover, calling it "the overriding moral issue." The liberal resolution, written by Wassily W. Leontief, Henry Lee Professor of Economics, emphasized the illegitimacy of the President's decision, and urged the Faculty to set up an independent Faculty committee-the Committee of 15-to report on the causes of the take-over and punish demonstrators. The two resolutions were combined, with the "overriding moral issue" clause dropped...
Marion shared that vision when he fled the duplicitous world of his mother's Hollywood entourage. But Marion was cursed with an intensely painful moral sense-he never escaped adolescent dreams of becoming a priest-which ultimately short-circuited his attempts to destroy himself and those around him in great purges of oblivion. BZ is equally disgusted-and so, it would seem, is Joan Didion, who writes of her allegiance with Marion in an essay entitled "On Morality"-but BZ lacks Marion's moral fervor. BZ is simply tired. The fervor has long since burnt away. BZ confronts Maria with...
Putting aside all philosophic, rational, and moral arguments explaining why S. I. Hayakawa will never be president of Harvard, there is still one overriding practical reason: at 64, he is only two years away from the mandatory retirement age of 66, and would be able to serve only one year after taking over in June...
...another, the colleges, as custodians of culture, accept what amounts to a moral obligation to recognize and foster quality in their buildings. Says Bernard P. Spring, dean of the architectural school at City College of New York: "We have so much good architecture at universities for the same reason that we have so much unrest there. The college is the most open institution around nowadays-open to ideas, to innovation, to change...