Word: moralizes
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...areas that the faculty considers indispensable to undergraduate education." These classes, in other words, are very carefully selected for the approach utilized in each and not for the nature of the specific subject matter. That's funny--the government department seems to see no unique "approach to knowledge" in Moral Reasoning 22, known as "Justice," for it includes it among its government classes. As a government concentrator who has sat through both the aforementioned Core and government department courses, I too fail to see this distinguishable "approach." Therefore, members of the Faculty of the Committee on the Core Program, either...
Fourth, had the Crimson taken greater care in its investigation, it might have noted that the Rent Control Board's hearing officer made his sweeping declarations about my moral integrity without ever giving me the slightest opportunity to speak on my own behalf. I lose both ways there--I am accused of lying to the board even though I had not been invited to any of several hearings, and because I was not present to defend myself, one of its officers freely castigated me in his individual interpretation of the case...
...concept of boredom developed from being perceived as a moral failure in the 18th century, to an index of class arrogance and inadequate responsiveness to others in 19th century and finally to the universal motivating force it is seen as today. Specifically, Boswell and Johnson warned against the moral failing of dullness; Dickens blamed a morally bankrupt society for the boredom of some of its members and 19th-century women accepted the necessary tedium of their position and resigned themselves to needlepoint; we today think it our right to be entertained and are offended by boring people and things...
...most interesting observations surround boredom in women's lives and fiction. In both the 18th and 19th centuries, women's lives were defined by predictable routine. Reading offered an escape, but the dangers implicit in that escape were well known: unless novels were written in accordance with an unyieldingly moral ideology they could engender in their readers unsalutory desires and vicissitudes of emotion. Yet women's actual existence--their good works, the various musical and artistic talents with which they embellished themselves, their letter-writing and social calls--offered little fodder for fiction, except in the hands of an adept...
Just like Let's Go, I cater to readers of all ages, socio-economic classes and questionable moral standards. However, unlike Let's Go, sometimes I make mistakes. I must apologize to all my Francophilic readers who were offended by last week's misspelling of Eiffel. I was so enamored with my memories of Jacques, I neglected to use my spell-checker. It seems like I can solve everyone else's problems but my own. Once again, I awoke this morning alone, surrounded by piles of reader mail. I wish I had a "George" like my friend in Leverett. What...