Word: preaching
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past, graduates of this school considered two options after their graduation: to preach or to profess. Today, the most coveted job in Harvard's spring recruiting is at Walt Disney Company, or second best, the NBA. For us, piety emanates not from Jerusalem, the Vatican, Mecca, Kyoto or Banares. It's Los Angeles. The celebration of banality found in Los Angeles carries over to Harvard. We throw ourselves into the gorge...
Barnum also persuaded a Universalist ministerto preach a sermon about man's arrogance inassuming that he knows all about the laws ofnature. The preacher delivered his sermon andspoke of the shallow philosophy of man whobelieves that he knows all about the earth and itscreation...
...perpetrators of the Oklahoma City bombing really view government as the people's enemy, the burden of fostering that delusion is borne not just by the nut cases who preach conspiracy but also to some extent by those who erode faith in our governance of America in the pursuit of their own ambitions. Inflamed passions produce unintended consequences. In the effort to get attention, to startle, to motivate, a crucial self-control is lost. The gulf between hyperbolic words and last week's despicable treachery is not all that great...
...concerned when I read that individuals who are supposedly the best and the brightest, the future leaders of society, blatantly steal large amounts of money and betray their friends' trust. Embezzlement, shoplifting, cheating on exams and lying all act to undermine the general welfare. I don't want to preach, but I want to conclude with this thought: if you can't act honestly for unselfish reasons, do it for selfish ones. Do it because it will help to make your life and your society better in the long...
...going to be a long protracted negotiation process. HUCTW and Harvard have a difficult enough time getting together on salary increases. The benefits battle promises to extend the bargaining well into 1996. That almost certainly means that Jesse Jackson (an old HUCTW buddy) will appear on campus to preach to a Yard full of cheering secretaries, and it virtually guarantees that you will see pickets in front of Mass. Hall before Christmas...