Word: recoiling
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Reflect upon this: Is Harvard a leader? Is Harvard in the business of producing leaders? Why then would Harvard recoil from producing `certain' leaders? If the Harvard community objects to the values and ideals of a particular segment of authority, shouldn't it, rather than abrogating its influence, seek to make louder its say? Disagree with current military thinking? Change...
Reflect upon this: Is Harvard a leader? Is Harvard in the business of producing leaders? Why then would Harvard recoil from producing 'certain' leaders? If the Harvard community objects to the values and ideals of a particular segment of authority, shouldn't it, rather than abrogating its influence, seek to make louder its say? Disagree with current military thinking? Change...
...young rooster's memoir, Making It (1968), who gave the term currency. In the Family (Philip Rahv, Mary McCarthy, Dwight Macdonald, Lionel and Diana Trilling, Irving Howe, Harold Rosenberg, Hannah Arendt and others), Podhoretz played a noisy, precocious younger brother, an irritant who would not stay put ideologically. In recoil against the Eisenhower inertia, Podhoretz had steered to the radical left by the early '60s. But then, appalled at the anti-Americanism and cultural wreckage of the Vietnam era, he headed hard right. In 1960 he became editor in chief of the leftist journal Commentary; after his conversion he repositioned...
Under this moral precept we should recoil at human cloning, because it inevitably entails using humans as means to other humans' ends--valuing them as copies of others we loved or as collections of body parts, not as individuals in their own right. We should also draw a line, however fuzzy, that would permit using genetic engineering to cure diseases and disabilities (cystic fibrosis, muscular dystrophy) but not to change the personal attributes that make someone an individual (IQ, physical appearance, gender and sexuality...
Rakow scored the first point quickly, moving in for a fast, light punch to the stomach. Going on the offensive again, Rakow went in for another punch, only to be cuffed by her opponent on the recoil...