Word: moralizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that is saved from being a mere tract by its rich performances and its compassion for the Americans who fought and suffered in the war. The Deer Hunter is far more elusive-more forceful, less coherent, more artistically ambitious but also dangerously close to political simplism, historical inaccuracy and moral kitsch...
...resolution's probable failure and the bank's reluctance to change its stance on South African loans would create a moral issue, Gardiner said, adding that he did not give a damn whether we make or lose money" selling the stock...
...outraged by the latest show of student activism on campus--Monday's proposed boycott of classes in support of both South African divesture and the Afro-American Studies Department. Taking a moral stance on racial apartheid in South Africa, certainly one concern of international importance, is one thing, but placing it on the same level as the Afro-Am debate leaves the boycott devoid of any meaning and, rather, turns it into a farcical imitation of the 1969 strike...
...South Africa protest and the problems with the Afro-American Department are very different issues. I really feel that the "activist" students, in trying to embrace all the issues, have turned an important moral issue like South Africa into one of the finest examples of knee-jerk liberalism that Harvard has yet seen. Charlotte Salomon...
This is not, I hasten to add, because I am a foreign student. With recruitment of American students in a covert manner, the moral and academic dangers are either insignificant or outweighed by the necessities of intelligence. This is not the case with foreign students...