Word: moralisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shah needs every ounce of our moral and political support right now," continues Helms. It is safe to say that Helms was depressed last week when at this delicate time, President Carter chose first to give the world another lecture on human rights and then later, at a breakfast with reporters, suggested that the Shah might fall. "We ought to keep quiet and go to work where it matters," Helms insists. If the U.S. is not now heavily involved in a detailed re-evaluation of all the forces at play in Iran, it should be, he says. "This talk about...
...University's John Giles Milhaven, for example, refuses to attach the label "evil" even to Jonestown. "I think what really happens with people like Hitler and Jones," says he, "is simple psychological sickness. The only response [to Guyana], it seems to me, is pity for everybody involved, not moral horror. Psychological illnesses that keep people from being good, sociological causes that compel people to turn to Jones or to Hitler-that's what one should be concerned with...
...tragic plight of the blacks in South Africa is not relieved by sympathizers who refuse to acknowledge the consequences of what they do or propose and the oppressed don't need friends with the moral consistency of the Kennedy School students who advocate the renaming of their library even if the Engelhard Foundation's money is not returned. If not reminded, they don't object to sharing in the fruits of alleged exploitation...
...lopsided composition of the committee has led to an improperly large concern within the committee about the financial and legal aspects of decisions being made by the committee to the exclusion of many of the moral aspects. For instance, some committee members fear that if Harvard were to initiate a shareholder resolution, stock prices could be driven down so far that the company would sue Harvard, causing Harvard to pay out all sorts of legal expenses. (This view, incidentally, conflicts with the Corporation's view that Harvard has so little clout that divestiture would be ineffective.) This fiscal and legal...
...summary, due to the composition and method of selection of members of the ACSR, the committee fails in its purpose of investigating the moral side of Harvard's decisions. Instead it delivers the same views as the administration, only with an invalid stamp of "social responsibility...