Word: heartlessly
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...could have begun to have a real discussion about the politics of choice. And yet the discourse along Pennsylvania Avenue was too often as frustrating and as futile as marchers calling the counter-demonstrators “fanatics” and the counter-demonstrators calling us “heartless baby-killers...
...can’t be a conservative Republican; you’re not heartless!” a friend recently said to me. This off-handed and not entirely serious comment highlighted a very real cultural phenomenon at Harvard: the monolithic way in which students in the liberal tree house often view conservatives. That is, all too frequently Harvard students forget that conservatives are actually people, not faceless supporters of the “vast right wing conspiracy,” nefarious Fox News contributors or simply bigots...
...genre-bound orgies of blood and guns are here to stay, and rather than upset the balance, the goal of studios should be to enrich what’s already available. It’s plain wrong to claim that blockbusters need to exist as brainless, heartless machines in order to succeed. There have been a number of superior action movies offered in recent years, with equal shares of proficient filmmaking and mass appeal. Dirty Pretty Things, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, City of God and Kill Bill: Volume One all have the key ingredients...
...that is not according to my very liberal judgment, but according to Winston Churchill, who once famously declared, “If you are not a liberal at 20, you have no heart. If you are not conservative at 40, you have no brain.” Heartless at 20, I can only hope that we are all brainless...
...responsibility to be a decent, responsible employer. Still, the weekend’s announcement that Harvard will be investing an additional $2 million per year on financial aid makes a mockery of his claim that the University’s governing policies are analogous to those of a heartless corporation concerned only with the bottom line. It is vitally important that tenure allows Epps to be a strident critic of University policies; it is also crucial, however, that someone contradicts his arguments, especially when Harvard administrators are loathe to engage in unseemly slanging matches with their strident critics...