Word: moralisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Members of the Southern Africa Solidarity Committee (SASC), which organized the demonstration, said yesterday the demonstration's purpose was to urge the University to take a moral stand against investing in companies operating in South Africa...
There is no indication that the sale of Manufacturer's Hanover and Citicorp stock represents Harvard's first step in taking a stand on the inhumane situation in South Africa. If in the future the University decides at long last to place morals over finances, it should say so, instead of throwing the controversy into the dry realm of finance, avoiding moral implications involved in the sale, and saving face in the business community. It is admirable when a university--even Harvard--listens to critics within its own community and publicly changes its policy to correct a glaring injustice...
That the church has been a pious fraud for centuries is no secret. What can more cogently point to its abnegation of moral authority than a serious consideration among the clergy of whether homosexuals can, apparently in good conscience, aspire to the pulpit? Why not prostitutes, too? After all, some of them may be "Christian believers...
...called it the moral equivalent of war, but President Carter's battle against energy waste seems to be winding up the moral equivalent of Pickett's Charge. Carter's energy bill is not dead yet, but its vital signs are fading. Congress adjourned last week for its ten-day Lincoln's Birthday recess, leaving the measure comatose in a House-Senate conference committee and the nation not much closer to a comprehensive energy program than it was when Carter first unwrapped his plan last April...
Even if nothing else is "accomplished" this year, Carter has increased the awareness of problems from which there is no escape. He has provided a moral leadership, the benefits of which will far outlast any partial solutions a compromising Congress can legislate. All we can do, then, is hope that his inaugural speech did not mark his surrender to the entrenched interests he outwitted so well in his campaign. Michael A. Calabrese