Word: moralized
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...their surname, could become part of a family tradition. Harvard should actively seek, even more than it already does, to help its alumni connect to current students, but it should not do so by compromising its core values.It will be difficult and potentially costly for Harvard to take the moral high ground with respect to legacy preference. But it is clear where the moral high ground is. Unlike academic indicators, athletic prowess, artistic talent, diversity of background, and the myriad other factors that go into making an admissions decision, a student’s legacy status contributes little, if anything...
...narcissism of today’s youth and the moral vacuity of the liberal intelligentsia are common enough themes among disgruntled moralists and curmudgeonly conservatives, but rarely are they afforded the delightful aesthetic treatment of a deft novelist, combining penetrating satire with deep pathos and rich characterization...
...sight of two planes careening into the World Trade Center is a harrowing intrusion upon the petty, superficial world these characters inhabit. It is a dark reproach of their moral frivolity—of liposuction, children’s clothes, dinner parties, and casual adultery...
Murray is the metaphorical Emperor and the centripetal personality of the novel. The paradigmatic public intellectual, he invests himself—and is invested by those around him—with an aura of wisdom and moral grandeur...
...pursuing a special concentration in Anthropology and Public Health, said she hopes to use dance and art to improve AIDS education in the Iringa region of Tanzania. “I want to go into Public Health and I feel like the AIDS epidemic will be a defining moral issue for our generation,” she said. “So I feel compelled to do something about it.” Hogeland will move to an orphanage near Cusco, Peru, to study the availability of health care in third world countries. While much...