Word: fit
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FREE and voluntary debate is the essence of the University. Compulsory inquisition is not, and neither are mechanisms to determine which organizations fit under a certain moral umbrella that some number wants to prop up for all. A policy of open recruitment may seem to some a passive condonement of certain moral qualities. But can it be anything but worse to respond by specifically decreeing the moral qualities that must be observed here...
...asks--hand over to the black community decisions about resource utilization. Quite specifically, an appropriate share of the funds for the various anti-poverty efforts which are now administered partly by the city and partly by the Federal government would be given to Roxbury to use as it sees fit...
...hope one could say isn't it strange--that our university which has, at Commencements these last years, honored politicians and international bankers, scientists and poets, journalists, scholars, and headmasters of elite preparatory schools, had not seen fit to honor--not what we use to call in the old parlance "a credit to his race," but the controversial prod to our self-satisfaction, the extraordinary moral teacher of our time, the prophet of living religious faith, the leader of a truly democratic movement of Americans for freedom and for peace...
Somewhere in a procession of singularly mindless Oscars, the Academy saw fit to honor a great lady of stage and screen, Katharine Hepburn. Miss Hepburn, who had won her last award more than 30 years ago, was named best actress for her appearance in another tale of love between the races, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner...
Lincoln said, "There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law." If law and order is removed, nothing will prevent the racial discord within America from turning into a civil war, White against Black. This can be no man's dream; it is a nightmare. Eugene L. Herzog...