Word: morality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crisply ignored the testimony of a number of literary lights who contended that the book was a near masterpiece that denounced the gutter by wallowing in it. Critic Frank Kermode, former co-editor of Encounter, argued that he "was horrified by it, but impressed by its novelty, originality and moral power. Dealing as it does with the lower depths of a great city, it is very much in the tradition of Dickens." Since Selby offered a minutely detailed chronicle of unremitting violence, perversion, homosexuality, sadism and sex without directly indicating any objection, the comparison with Dickens, who made his point...
...Moral Ambiguity. Agamemnon sends a letter to his wife Clytemnestra (Irene Papas) telling her to bring Iphigenia to Aulis under the ruse that the girl is to become the bride of Achilles. Abruptly seized by fatherly love, Agamemnon dispatches a second letter bidding Clytemnestra to stay at home. But this message is intercepted by Helen's husband Menelaus, who rails at Agamemnon for daring to dream of putting his daughter's life before Greek victory. This raises a question of moral ambiguity that runs through the play: Is this a war for a strumpet, or is it against...
...Coleman Report thus adds a vast weight of fact to the irrefutable moral argument for integration. And it was perhaps expecting raining affirmation of that principle that Civil Rights leaders and educators from all over the Northeast attended a Harvard Ed School colloquium on the Report last October. The conference brought together some of education's foremost scholars, including Coleman, in the first public forum of its kind since the Report's appearance. A unanimous call for integration would have been a genuine breakthrough. And falling that, a clarification of the issues dividing experts would have at least explained past...
...letter to Robert W. Haney, Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Adams House, Schlesinger said that "any reasonably intelligent or humane man . . . (would have recognized) the stringent moral and emotional predicament created for young men today by the war in Vietnam...
...this is a moral question, then there should be no difference in smoking rules between us and the faculty," said one student. "Whatever problems the faculty had when they made their decision must be the same ones we are having...