Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sophomores, juniors and seniors will be deluged by hundreds of handouts, flyers and pamphlets as they plod through traditional registration rites before racing off for a last weekend of freedom...
...Corporation took the offensive in the debate over its investments. It issued a lengthy progress report on its case-by-case review of corporations in South Africa, rife with intracacies and obfuscations. President Bok's open letters, which called total divestiture unjustifiable and a threat to Harvard's academic freedom and financial longevity, gave the Corporation the appearance of concern and served to further anesthetize student opposition...
...President Bok's open letters calling divestiture unjustifiable and questioning the value of corporate withdrawal in light of the real interests of the majority of South Africans. Bok stated in his letters that by divesting of its holdings, Harvard would take a political stand, imperiling its political and academic freedom and undermining its financial stability. He also asserted that there was no evidence to show that corporate withdrawal from South Africa would benefit the cause of South African blacks...
...fleshly titillations and metaphysical phosphorescence, excites that kind of Spenglerian anxiety. A lot of Americans seem inclined to think of themselves as a decadent people: such self-accusation may be the reverse side of the old American self-congratulation. Americans contemplate some of the more disgusting uses to which freedom of expression has been put; they confront a physical violence and spiritual heedlessness that makes them wonder if the entire society is on a steep and terminal incline downward. They see around them what they call decadence. But is the U.S. decadent? Does the rich, evil word, with its little...
...combinations thereof. Legal abortions and the pervasive custom of contraception suggest a society so chary of its future that it has lost its will to perpetuate itself. Says British Author Malcolm Muggeridge: "What will make historians laugh at us is how we express our decadence in terms of freedom and humanism. Western society suffers from a largely unconscious collective death wish." Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who shares with Muggeridge an austere Christian mysticism, has been similarly appalled by Western materialism...