Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THERE are legitimate issues here, and, at this crucial time in everyone's personal history, it is important to make them clear now and to act on them now. It is a fine thing to stir up moral indignation. Perhaps it will get those who care sufficiently upset to think seriously about avoiding service in this war. All the leadership -- wherever it is -- in the movement here has succeeded in doing is confusing people. At a time when solidarity as well as coherence is all-important, SDS, for all its highly-touted organizational abilities, still suffers from a kind...
FINALLY, the war is hurting Harvard's conscience and in a very real way the whole tradition of free thought and free expression here. There are strong moral issues at stake in the Vietnamese war--legality and honesty and humanity, for example. These have been bludgeoned by the corporations and the generals and the government. It is the University's duty to defend these moral principles. If it does not, it lives in hypocrisy. How can we refuse to act against a war that molds minds, that lies, that fits expediencies into Fords and CadillacsThe great casuality of this...
...While most aficionados consider Violetta, or Sigmund, or even the sadistic Turandot a familiar acquaintance, or even a friend, few can cozy up to Hans Werner Henze's heroes and heroines. In The Young Lord, the hero turns out to be an extremely well-trained monkey, and the moral of the tale seems to be that the modern world is so fad-conscious that people will imitate practically anyone with a social passport, even if he is an ape in disguise. It might sound like comedy, but the work is filled with bitter misery. Henze has said: "This music...
...Students acting out of sincere moral conviction who have gone to jail and paid their civil debt will not be placed in double jeopardy," he said...
...does not expect the school's position to make any difference in any student's decision, he said, because "such a decision is based on moral grounds, not on mere convenience...