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According to owner Alan O’ Sullivan, Tommy Doyle’s motto is “great pints, great food and great friendship.” One thing that isn’t so great, however, is its marketing. The pub’s “soft opening,” (a euphemism for “not a big deal”) occurred on Halloween, in the ramshackle blue building that once housed Brother Jimmy’s. Though opening on a Monday night may seem inauspicious, O’ Sullivan is confident in his type...
...sake, she should keep that self-aware motto and remember it’s a slippery slope from the Academy Awards to flopped action movies...
...argument that there are at least great questions in ethics which we all should carefully consider? Certainly, the University should not be molding students who think in the same way, especially on moral issues, but it does have a responsibility to confront students with these difficult dilemmas. Our motto today does not carry the explicit moral connotations that it did in 1636 when Harvard was an overtly Christian school, but veritas is useless—if not dangerous—unless it is employed for ethical purposes.Nowadays, it is politically easier to allow students to choose whether they want...
...market promotes our liberation through consumer goods. The commercialism of 1970s counter-culture, for example, has been analyzed by Bass Professor of English Louis Menand. A more recent example of the way advertising makes kitsch out of genuine languages of self-definition is the grievous use of the motto of Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man”—“I am what I am”—to sell sneakers. Pseudo-sociological categories such as the “metrosexual man” are constantly invented to make consumers...
...such as myself from falling behind on the syllabus, but it will improve the quality of discussions since everyone will be fairly well-versed with the material and not under as much pressure to demonstrate it. Ultimately, Harvard will fail to live up to the high ideals of its motto unless it can successfully create a place for reviving veritas. And the more we breathe life into veritas through pedagogical improvements, the more we will in turn breathe life into our own lives. The more our courses lead us to recognize that knowledge is not a static fixture...