Word: highmindedness
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Comparing homosexuality to selling one's soul to the devil? Is this what Peninsula means by "affirming the dignity of the homosexual"? The highminded, bombastic rhetoric found in Landry's piece seems a little undermined by snide wisecracks such as this. With such nastiness masquerading as a service to benighted...
If Peninsula truly believes in truth in advertising, maybe it should shed its transparent intellecual veneer and instead continue only to wallow in unthinking epithets, giving all readers a taste of Peninsula's real feelings about the personal dignity of homosexuals. Peninsula cannot have both highminded rhetoric and gutter slurs...
The mishandling of HCIA's recognition process is cause for alarm within the Harvard community. If we grant the right to express and disseminate ideas to some students but deny these same privileges to others, then we might as well stop all this highminded talk about tolerance and diversity. Those...
Even more confusing were Garder's comments on assumptions about human nature. In his second lecture, he called people "paranoid" who believe that "evil people with evil purposes are running things behind the scenes." Leaders, including the much-abused military-industrial complex, are doing about the best they can within...
The film's plot unfolds in the twin towns of Altenstadt and Neuburg, on either side of the Elbe, in the Soviet and American zones of Germany. One dramatic shot shows Russians and Americans meeting on the Elbe, with Russian guns grimly pointed westward. The hard-working Russian hero...