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About Casablanca there clings a quality of lovely, urgent innocence. Those who cherish the movie may be nostalgic for moral clarity, for a war in which good and evil were obvious and choices tenable. They may be nostalgic for a long-lost connection between the private conscience and the public world. Casablanca was released three years before the real moment of the fall of the modern world: 1945. That year, the side of good dropped nuclear bombs on cities full of civilians, and the world discovered Auschwitz. We have not yet developed the myths with which to explain such matters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: We'll Always Have Casablanca | 12/27/1982 | See Source »

...decade when the U.S. was holding down arms spending. He also argued that it was perfectly moral for the U.S. to make certain that "our deterrent forces remain sufficiently strong and credible to assure effective deterrence." The goal, he said, is "to prevent war and preserve the values we cherish." As for the bishops' stance on the MX, the Administration argues that their opposition to the development of more sophisticated weapons would reduce the prospects of limiting a nuclear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bishops and the Bomb | 11/29/1982 | See Source »

...goodbye. He brought me a plaque with a quote from Thomas Jefferson: "I have the consolation to reflect that during the period of my Administration not a drop of the blood of a single citizen was shed by the sword of war." This is something I shall always cherish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keeping Faith | 10/11/1982 | See Source »

...veteran of many amateur plays, I cherish the excitement of performing. It's exhilarating. I can't imagine taking a pill to diminish its effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jul. 26, 1982 | 7/26/1982 | See Source »

...were asked to pick out the essence of Harvard's professed values, they probably would boil "veritas" and justice. These values we both cherish, and we have tried out best to live in accord with them. But we do no believe Harvard has done so. Rather, as we have examined the record and experienced this University, we have seen a long term pattern of failure to protect the civil liberties of students and faculty, cooperation with government witchhunts, discrimination in faculty appointments on political, racial and sexual grounds, and failure to take a strong and truly moral position against those...

Author: By Chester W. Hartman and Michael D. Tanzer, S | Title: In Pursuit of Veritas | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

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