Word: freedom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...government was established to provide for the general welfare of the people while allowing for the individual freedom which differentiates the United States from many other nations. It was not established to prevent individuals from trying the limits of their capabilities...
...select group of freshman writers deserve the chance to exercise and develop their own literary talents. But the issue is not simply one of academic freedom. I question the validity of distinctions between the skills taught in craft of fiction the modes of expression are more open, if often less direct. Still, clarity is respected, compression admired, diction honored. If the implication of Richard Marius' decision is that style can't be adequately learned in the practice of fiction writing. I am sure even Strunk and White would disagree with...
...Hanoi government is much better at cloaking its repression under the banner of the public good, or blaming mysterious "counter-revolutionaries" for unpopular curtailments of freedom, the men assert...
...current situation, not Bok's hypothetical case, inhibits "a junior faculty member hoping for tenure, a young administrator seeking a promotion, a full professor worrying about a raise in salary...from openly espousing a view contrary to the official doctrine of the university" as Bok put it? Intellectual freedom means more than having seven men run the University: why bother to speak out when no one will listen...
...LAST TWO ARGUMENTS--that taking moral stands might threaten Harvard's freedom from outside interference and endanger its financial base--are too vaguely presented in the letter to have much punch. Who is it that would interfere? Why would they do so? Just what are the financial costs of the moral positions Bok is so reluctant to adopt...