Word: moralizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...struggle against apartheid, the Corporation has chosen to continue its indirect support of the Vorster government, once more affirming that Harvard places concern for profits ahead of concern for human lives. At the very least, the Corporations' should cease to justify its decision on the basis of moral concern for the "tragic and deplorable situation" in South Africa. An explanation in terms of financial considerations would be no more palatable, but it would not be quite so insluting to the community's intelligence...
Later she is being massaged while hearing unpleasant gossip from a friend. All moral comment is communicated through the changing rhythms of the masseuse's hands, the dourly disapproving expressions on her face...
...Gulag II he had thundered: "The strongest chains binding the prisoners were their own universal submission and total surrender to their situation as slaves." But writing from Vermont, where he now lives, Solzhenitsyn prefaces the English translation of Gulag III by saying: "To those readers who have found the moral strength to overcome the darkness and suffering of the first two volumes, the third volume will disclose a space ol freedom and struggle...
Beyond ignorance, fear and greed, such actions are emblematic of the moral degradation visited upon the Soviet people by the regime, Solzhenitsyn believes. It is scarcely surprising, then, that he experienced a stab of regret when he was re leased from the camp in 1953: "Only on the threshold of the guardhouse do you begin to feel that what you are leaving be hind you is both your prison and your homeland. This was your spiritual birthplace, and a secret part of your soul will remain here forever - while your feet trudge on into the dumb and unwelcoming expanse...
...these years possess an intrinstic interest, less for what he actually says than for what we know of his role. Here again Pusey provides a general overview of the developments that took place, but for the first time a note of personal passion and conviction appears. The attitude of moral outrage which Pusey adopted during the student outbreaks in 1969, his indignation that "Harvard men" could act in such a way, continues even nine years after the event. If the '50s were a "scoundrel" time in American history, Pusey considers in the student rebellion in the late 1960s even more...