Word: moralizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thomas C. Schelling, Littauer Professor of Political Economy at the Kennedy School of Government, said after the panel that a university should only take a stand on a moral issue in "extraordinarily rare times...
...psychological effect on Americans of all this crisscross Realpolitik is to lift a lot of the moral burden off the American involvement. At the least, it seems less tenable to hold that the U.S. was guilty of the uniquely satanic imperialism that antiwar critics often saw-and still frequently see-behind American policy. The new conflicts in Southeast Asia add an element of retrospective perplexity to analysis of what the U.S. was doing there...
...psychological, moral and spiritual adjustment that has proved more difficult and problematic. Some, of course, believe Americans are an oblivious people, who have simply cruised on and learned nothing. "We have no national memory," Lillian Hellman once told Gloria Emerson. "Maybe it's a mark of a young and vigorous people. I think we've already forgotten Viet Nam." When William Westmoreland, former U.S. commander in Viet Nam, appears on campuses these days, he finds "total change. Crowds are larger, open-minded. Now there's very little criticism, and mostly from professors." Of course, the kids Westmoreland...
Though the offer would come to $35 a share for stock that had been selling in the $23 to $26 range, Woolworth angrily rejected it. Chairman Edward Gibbons called the bid "grossly inadequate" and said that it raised "moral and ethical questions of the most serious nature." Woolworth has brushed up its stodgy image by posting record sales of $6.1 billion and earnings of $130 million in the last fiscal year, and it is roughly four times larger than Brascan. To help finance the takeover, Brascan would have to borrow $700 million from the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, which...
Ultimately, though, Murphy's work is a novel of ideas: political and religious, sa cred and profane. The moral problems of war and peace, life and death, change and tradition, poverty and riches are questions that pursue every human. Murphy can not fully answer them, nor can Pope Francesco I. But they are asked in a way that cannot be ignored, and they will haunt the reader long after this remarkable epic is finally laid down...