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...find the corporation responsive April 19 politically damaging and morally bankrupt and provocative. We are especially appalled, by the statement that, "We do not believe, in view of the constructive actions a shareholder can take, that it is morally wrong to own stock in America companies, such Gulf, that have operations in nations controlled by governments that engage in actions considered repressive or inhumane...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACULTY STATEMENT | 4/24/1972 | See Source »

...Mich.), chairman of the House Subcommittee on Africa and former chairman of the Congressional Black Caucus, endorsed the takeover of Mass Hall and other protests by students as "necessary actions to demonstrate their deeply-felt opposition to your Corporation's stated position. It is a position that is morally bankrupt and unworthy of an institution with such a reputation...

Author: By Anthony C. Hili., | Title: In Occupied Territory: | 4/23/1972 | See Source »

Early this morning, from Massachusetts Hall, PALC and Afro declared Harvard's position "morally bankrupt...

Author: By Rob Eggert, | Title: Black Students Seize Mass Hall | 4/20/1972 | See Source »

...system was not designed to exhaust the candidates or bankrupt the party or elect Richard Nixon. But it seems to be doing all three. Around the White House, the least euphoric Republican says he is merely "confident" that Nixon will win. The others are gloating over the opposition's predicament. While the Democrats have always engaged in intraparty bloodletting, the wounds they are inflicting this year are going to take longer to heal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Are Primaries Necessary? | 4/10/1972 | See Source »

...always dreamed of re-birth-on-the-cheap; and who lives out his life without at least one trip to the brink? "Man always travels along precipices," Ortega y Gasset noted. "His truest obligation is to keep his balance." What is new and perverse in the '70s man, bankrupt in common convictions and up to here with cultivating his precious self, is the hope of finding salvation by jumping. It is as if Lear's soul-shaking prayer -"O! let me not be mad!"-had suddenly and rather casually been reversed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The New Cult of Madness: Thinking As a Bad Habit | 3/13/1972 | See Source »

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