Word: mindedness
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In the 1927 case of Buck v. Bell, Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes handed down the infamous ruling summarized in the title above. He was talking about forced sterilization of the “feeble-minded,” but his words also sum up one attitude towards Harvard?...
Rove’s speech had been widely anticipated by politically minded students at Harvard.
Hopefully the other members of the committee—its Chairman Donald H. Pfister, Elaine Scarry, Stephen A. Mitchell—and staff member Heather Quay of the Office of General Counsel, are more open-minded, if a little skeptical. Otherwise, it is troubling to think they have been guided...
Holbrooke's style offers a sharp contrast to Lake's. America's toughest diplomatic tactician, he is alternately ingratiating and bullying on the surface but strategically minded beneath. The former U.N. ambassador, who three years after his 1992 disappointment badgered and cajoled the warring parties in Bosnia into a peace...
The most rapt expression of the Pope's enthusiasm for the U.S. came in a high-minded 2004 dialogue with the president of the Italian Senate, Marcello Pera, published as the book Without Roots. It bemoans the European Union's refusal to acknowledge Christianity in a draft constitution, and Pera...