Word: moralisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heavy infuence from its star, Orson Welles, this is quite simply the best thriller ever made. The grays and blacks of post-war Vienna provide a perfect backdrop to the machinations of Welles's demonic opportunism, and the expressionist camera angles and bizarvesets sets create a disturbing sense of moral disorder in this divided city. Only Welles could turn a simple shot of a cat licking a man's shoe into a unforgettable avatar of terror and corruption...
...cause in the Spanish Civil War and went to Spain as a reporter in the winter of 1936. As an "independent witness" he hoped to use his poetry to convey what he believed to be the meaning of the Fascist-Anti-Fascist struggle, in which he saw the fundamental moral issues of liberty, equality and justice at stake...
...political movement that embodies truth, as he believed the Republican cause in the Spanish Civil War did, serves the highest purposes of art through its expression in poetry. Spender believed at the time that ideally a poet could awaken the public consciousness and, by shedding light on a true, moral system of values, could perhaps influence the course of history--in this case, away from Fascism...
...could not find the $150 the UHS will now supply. Women at Harvard have generally managed to find funds for abortions if they did not want a child. But financial questions have often assumed far greater importance than they should. Voluntary abortions tend to carry with them emotional and moral dilemmas, and by refusing to pay for abortions the University has until now required less-wealthy students and students who could not seek aid from their families to shunt these problems to a later date, until they have taken care of the more immediate question of financing...
...wisely decided to allow students who oppose abortion on moral grounds to withdraw the small portion of their health services fee--less than $1.00--that will go toward UHS abortion coverage. Such a provision is only fair, given the opposition, due to religious or ethical conviction, of some members of the Harvard community to abortion. But students who plan to ask the UHS to refund their part of the abortion fund should realize that by thus stating their opposition to the abortion coverage plan they express by implication a desire to return to a situation where less wealthy students face...