Word: idealizations
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...speech are decided behind closed doors by the Ad Board. A student-faculty-administration committee on free speech would be a fair way to deal with the gray areas more openly. The Faculty should appoint a free speech committee with such carefully delinated responsibility. While it would be ideal for a "community" to set the standards of speech completely as the staff position implies, such a mechanism is unrealistic and unreliable. As long as students have equal input, we see a balanced committee as the most fair of possible solutions...
Williams' downfall resulted from his remarks at a Detroit symposium on gay marriages: "Monogamy is as unnatural as celibacy. If people want to try, O.K., but the fact is, people are not monogamous. It is crazy to hold up this ideal and pretend it's what we're doing and we're not." Having thus dismissed the traditional concept of Christian marriage, Williams told a questioner in rather crude terms that Mother Teresa of Calcutta would be better off if she had had sex. All that was too much even for Bishop Spong, who also wants to overturn Judeo-Christian...
What injustice! Favoring the fortuitously-born for admission into a prestigious university--one of the most significant advantages one can get in this country--is the absolute antithesis of the American ideal of a "level playing field...
Politics mingled with squash didn't make for the ideal situation in an already highly charged match, but Harvard (7-0 overall, 3-0 Ivy) proved that it can remain cool, calm and collected in any conditions. Squash, not politics, is its forte...
...information that it has enabled, has proved to be a promiscuously, irrepressibly democratic force, a kinetic object with the mysterious purity to change the world. The telephone, like the authority to kill, might have been legally restricted to kings and dictators. But it is in a way the ideal instrument of freedom -- inclusive, unjudging, versatile, electronic but old-fashioned (here so long no one really fears it). The telephone, like democracy, is infinitely tolerant of stupidity; it is a virtual medium of stupidity, a four-lane highway of the greedy and false and brainless. But it is (unless tampered with...