Word: bred
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
THERE ARE ALL kinds of insularities bred by the walls around us, and they can be noticed in the causes we espouse and in the attitudes that color the way we conduct our lives. The most salient example is the soap-box posturing that now passes for campus politics. The Engelhard Library flap, the controvers over the McCloy fellowships. South Africa investments recent history at Harvard is littered with the remnants of feel good politicking that leaves little to show for itself except the staking out of a position for which one has no responsibility. (And the Crimson editorial page...
NONE THE LESS, THE isolated atmosphere bred by Harvard present us with a host of challenges that begin with one dilemma, how to seek social consciousness without preaching, hectoring, of hypocrisy. Most Harvard students I know want something more out of life than self enrichment, but what is the personal price they are willing to pay to achieve this...
...liberals. Much of the liberalism Harvard says it stands for, after all, has to do with process, with fair play and tolerance for all views, a process which is tacitly subverted by the attitudes cultivated around campus. And this is the worst of all the results of the insularity bred by this University...
...Bouyed by a white backlash against affirmative action, this Administration has successfully stymied, or even reversed, previous efforts toward nondiscriminatory hiring practices. Blacks cannot hope to reverse these trends without white support, but neither can whites hope to enjoy a peaceful society if they ignore the alienation and violence bred by such injustices. King never failed to underscore the interconnection of the causes of all segments of society; while the current problems faced by the Black community differ substantially from the explicit legal oppression of the sixties, King's call for a cooperative and inclusive activism still offers a valuable...
...home as he embarked upon his career as a pitcher. This notion that they were participating in a somehow unacceptable profession one that didn't pay much, was full of steaming hot train cars crawling from steaming St. Louis to steaming Chicago and filthy uniforms donned day after day--bred a kind of unity that's not apparent when the writer talks to contemporary ballplayers in this age of designated hitters, designated contract negotiators and designated stadium grass...