Word: moralizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chilly reception last March. He spent two hours with Vance, then half an hour with Carter. Afterward, in a ceremony on the White House lawn, the President pledged "total, absolute American commitment to Israel's security." In response, Begin called Carter's speech "one of the greatest moral statements ever." He acknowledged that no hard bargaining had been attempted. "The changes for the better are only in atmosphere," he said...
Bundy discussed the relative stability in the nuclear arms situation and noted the "slow horizontal proliferation" of atomic weaponry among nations over the last 30 years. "The Canadians, the Swedes, and the Swiss could have developed nuclear weapons" but chose not to for various political, moral and economic reasons, he said...
...acting without conscience, for without even asking the faculty or alumni, it tells us that we, the students, form too small a "constituency" for our opinion to be respected. And worse yet, it attempts to excuse itself on the grounds that what it does, it does out of the moral conviction that by being mute it is really helping the South African people...
...United Nations General Assembly, the World Council of Churches, the NAACP, the Pan-Africanist Congress, the National Congress of South Africa, the Black Consciousness movement, the Congressional Black Caucus, the AFL-CIO and so many, many others say "withdraw," then I wonder: upon what do we base our supposedly "moral" decision to stay...
...realize I should be grateful to the members of the Corporation for all the soul-searching and agonizing moral battles they so kindly tell us they have undergone, but some parts of their statement strain the limits of my credulousness. For example, they tell us that the best way to influence conditions in South Africa is not to "cut and run," but to redirect the policies of corporations. The logical extension of such an argument is that Harvard should buy even more South African stock so that more corporations come under the influence of men with such high moral...