Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rounding up of the usual suspects: Soviet feelings of inferiority, hypersensitivity, paranoia, suspiciousness, what have you. These explanations do not satisfy. For what was so stunning about the Soviet reponse was its lack of feeling. What sent a chill through the world (as even more ruthless Soviet behavior like the invasion of Afghanistan had not) was the undertone of stony incomprehension in the Soviet response to pleas for some acknowledgment of responsibility. One sensed the absence of a certain faculty: a heart grown so cold that it had lost the capacity for remorse...
...Brill's ultimate failure to unite successfully knowledge and religion does not imply that the two are utterly irreconcilable. In fact, because the intellectual Hester stands by her daughter when Brill beseeches her to abandon hope, she illustrates the hope of fusing both strands. Based on solely Brill's behavior, it is possible to interpret Ozick's ultimate stance as anti-intellectual. Yet closer inspection reveals The Cannibal Galaxy as a plea for knowledge tempered by Christian love, to pursue knowledge and ambition without ever losing sight of one's family, one's past, and one's beliefs...
Similarly, the "accused" is not receiving as lesser punishment just because the details of the case are not revealed. Professor Dominguez's name has continued to appear in The Crimson and I doubt very much that at this point, he is under "no pressure" to "alter his behavior." The Government Dept.'s action and the unwanted publicity surrounding the case are, I'm sure, more than enough to "pressurize" anybody into mending his ways...
...complaint has merit, it should not balk at disclosing information about the charge and subsequent penalties--including the harasser's name, except in cases where such disclosure would harm the victim. As long as harassment complaints are kept strictly confidential, harassers will feel no pressure to alter their behavior and victims will be reluctant to come forward with their charges. Furthermore, Harvard's insistence that sexual harassment is somehow a "family matter" to be handled discreetly only confuses the fundamental issue: Sexual harassment is not only wrong but in many cases also illegal...
...might agree that certain behavior makes one person more undesirable than another, but how do we ensure that age or skin color or national origin or harmless mannerisms will not also become the basis for distinguishing the undesirable from the desirable? How do we ensure, in short, that the police do not become the agents of neighborhood bigotry...