Word: moral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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However, Bok must also agree that such responsibility at least requires the recognition of effective democracy at Harvard--of allowing for the regular input of opinions from students and professors into university policy. Above all such responsibility requires a firm commitment to widely accepted standards of moral rightness and political freedom...
...woman on paper!" For in the last analysis, one cannot imagine the peculiar sensibility of her work -- its steely finesse and suppleness, its imagery of blossoming, unfolding and embrace -- coming with such conviction, or perhaps at all, from a man. O'Keeffe was a woman of exquisite moral vigor. Now that she is dead, no effort will be spared to convert her into a mere culture heroine. In the gap between her death and this banal transfiguration, one can at least look at her paintings...
When the final curtain eventually comes down--in metaphor only, as the Kirkland JCR is not well-equiped theatrically--the audience is left with a sense of relief and sadness. One is relieved that the troubled play has concluded and has even provided a moral--"try and cheat the government and look what happens." However, one is also saddened by the realization that the Kirkland House production was pretty much doomed from the start. Given the uncohesive script, with its shoddily constructed plot and poorly developed characters, the present production deserves at least an "A" for effort...
...Harvard opts to become involved with these issues because it has "a moral duty to avoid making investments in order to profit from a system so at variance with the university's fundamental values," Bok wrote. These values are intellectual freedom and individual dignity...
Obviously, only sensationalist journalists put their "moral" beliefs and standards aside to get an article. Beth Abate...