Word: idealisms
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...such a position at this University by virtue of a donation to Harvard, but only because of superior qualifications to perform the responsibilities of the post." The issue may be clear cut, but President Bok should be more aware than he seems to be of failures to meet his ideal. How, for instance, may the common practice of naming big givers such as Ivan Boesky to seats on visiting committees be reconciled with the notion? Does wealth give someone the right to evaluate a faculty? Harvard should face such questions forthrightly...
...have political events lifted spirits. The 1986 Senate elections were disastrous for the Moral Majority's preferred candidates. Last month's defeat of Robert Bork, an ideal Supreme Court nominee from the movement's standpoint, further suggested a loss of clout. As for issues like abortion and school prayer, Moral Majority spent millions "without achieving one piece of legislation," observes Evangelical Theologian Carl F.H. Henry. Fundamentalists this year also lost three significant court cases dealing with curriculum grievances against public schools...
None of these activities were necessarily illegal: Deaver was charged with perjury rather than violations of the 1978 Ethics in Government Act. But as Michael Kinsley of the "TRB" column in the New Republic notes, "Lobbying is an ideal illustration of TRB's Law of Scandal, which holds that the scandal isn't what's illegal; the scandal is what's legal." The practices revealed at the Deaver trial not only taint former officials who peddle their connections but also raise questions about the ethics of corporate America. Besides, they are often wasteful: TWA could not withstand the Icahn takeover...
...historian Carl Friedrich once wrote, "To be an American is an ideal, while to be a Frenchman is a fact." A Frenchman knows what it means to be a Frenchman. Americans constantly wonder about themselves, about what they represent, about their purpose and their virtue and where they stand in the world. Americans are constantly reinventing themselves...
ASIT turned out, he was saving the best for last, as the D minor sonata, Op. 108, the most virtuosic of the bunch, was the evening's most polished performance, with an near-ideal balance between the players...