Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...enrages legitimate conservative[s]." Of course, in order for "consensus destruction" to take place, a consensus must first exist; Mr. Chung has already admitted that no such consensus exists around the council. More importantly, PUCC seeks to create a legitimating consensus in campus politics--not by declaring a moral mandate for progressive concerns, but by creating an articulate dialogue around vital and potentially divisive issues, one which might produce the agreement lacking in Harvard's present, rhetoric-driven politics. As Mr. Chung would know if he had read the question-and-answer document that PUCC has provided to The Crimson...
...Hunter S. Thompson once wrote that "as long as Nixon was politically alive...we could always be sure of finding the enemy on the Low Road. There was no need to look anywhere else for the evil bastard." The Peninsula performs the same function: it is a kind of moral compass...
...possessions, accompanied by a relative neglect of any higher values, is now a part of American culture. In looking at the state of contemporary America, many commentators rightly bemoan our society's crass materialism, expressing shock at this sorry state of affairs. We should all be disturbed by the moral decay of our nation...
...PART TO PLAY IN THE ethnic struggles going on in the states of the former Yugoslavia. These are localized clashes with no adverse effect beyond the states' boundaries. The U.N. should withdraw its forces without delay in order to regain the moral strength on which its effectiveness rests. SUMALYA CHAKRABORTY Rooty Hill, Australia...
...plays, knows how to roll with their punches. Reserved but agile, wary but thrusting when he needs to be, he gracefully reanimates a lost American archetype, the lonely lower-class male absorbing more cigarette smoke, bourbon whiskey and nasty beatings than is entirely healthy, as he pursues miscreants and moral imperatives down mean, palm-lined streets...