Word: graved
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...society has a future, so does this University, and it must conduct its affairs on the assumption that procedures outlive individuals, no matter how grave and deserving of respect are the passions that presently involve many of us in this community. Correspondingly, this letter is intended to tell you as an individual that henceforth any interference with an individual's rights of movement will be viewed as a matter of extreme gravity. Subsequent disciplinary action would reflect the University's judgment that your conduct had been disruptive of its basic procedures and freedoms, irrespective of whatever legal penalties might also...
They read in part: "If our society has a future, so does this University, and it must conduct its affairs on the assumption that procedures outlive individuals, no matter how grave and deserving of respect are the passions that presently involve many of us in this community...
...Your article reveals the thinking of candidate makers, which is as frivolous as the times are grave. They think only of vote appeal, with not so much as a murmur about fitness or stature. They forget, as they have in the past, that when it comes to the election itself, the public will take the issues of the day more seriously than they. It ceases to be a game-between human justice, the fate of nations and mankind, on the one hand, and on the other, a few slick party deals...
This is not to say that the University should judge every contemporary social issue. We are charged, however, with preserving our integrity as a morally and intellectually responsible community. There is a grave possibility that the actions of the United States government in Vietnam, aided by companies such as Dow Chemical Corporation, are in the long run inimical to those values of freedom and human fulfillment this institution espouses. It is all the more incumbent on us to decide whether we will assist in the execution of the policy--not in violation of freedom of speech, but in its support...
...there is consistency within the fantasy. He has succeeded in bringing the fear endemic to life under Stalin to a level where it can be borne-as excruciating comedy. Yet, while entertained by the absurd carryings-on of the Devil in Moscow, the reader is also made aware that grave matters of eternal importance are being decided behind the showy fireworks...