Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...question of stock ownership, what can justify this disproportion? I think there were two answers given in the debate last time given by Professors Walzer and Higonnet. Prof. Walzer said he would have emphasized rather more the particular cruelty and the particular degradation that was involved in singling out a nation or a religious group or a race for systematic oppression. Why did my friend say "nation, religious group, or race" and not say "class"? Isn't genocide also the genocide of a class? I beg leave of good Dean Bowersock to translate the word "genus" in genocide...
...irrational to limit your moral concern only to those crimes which you have committed? These are the two arguments I've found to specialize the question of apartheid over the question of genocide. I'm left in admiration for President Bok's two open letters and in particular for his notion that the University has, not a moral neutrality, but a special mission that gives its own morals, and even its own politics to convey...
Pritsak, who was directly involved in bringing the matter to Bok's attention, said Saturday the University consulted several U.S. government officials before sending the initial invitation. In particular, Pritsak said Dean Rosovsky asked then-Secretary of State Henry Kissinger whether inviting Moroz would be a "reasonable step" in the light of U.S.-Soviet relations. Kissinger replied that it was something that should be tried and pursued, Pritsak said...
Although Fox said, "I personally am always willing to consider changes in structure if that seems necessary," he denied he had already agreed to the review. "We have no particular understanding." Fox said...
...wrong. SASC appears to have its own ideology which transcends the anti-apartheid struggle. One need only look at SASC's recent collection drive for Zimbabwe refugees. By circumventing neutral international refugee organizations, which distribute supplies to all refugees without consideration of political orientation, and instead directly supplying one particular faction in an ideological struggle, SASC has made an implicit ideological evaluation of merit. Actions like this make it impossible for us to support SASC...