Word: preception
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...faces the kiss of death, a slow and imperceptible decline into the abyss of assimilation!" Ben-Gurion, whose devotion to Judaism as a religion is something short of wholehearted, did not scruple to quote Jewish scripture for his own purposes. Every day spent abroad, he pointed out, violates the precept of the Talmud that says, "Whoever dwells outside the land of Israel is considered to have...
Said its president. Rabbi David I. Golo-vensky: "Voting for a presidential candidate because he is a Catholic or vot ing against him because he belongs to the Catholic faith is a sinister betrayal of the fundamental precept of American democracy." In the influential Jesuit weekly America, the Rev. John Courtney Murray, a front-rank Catholic theologian, said that "the oldest American prejudice. anti-Catholicism, is as poisonously alive today as it was in 1928, or even in the 1840s. My chief hope is that old Catholic angers will not rise. Now is the time for the tra dition...
Freudian Slip. In Dallas, on a final exam, a Southern Methodist University coed misspelled a word but otherwise correctly identified the fifth precept of Buddhism: "Do not be unchased...
With regard to ethics, the University is not confined to education by precept, but is rather forced into an exemplary role every time it acts officially. When President Pusey stood firm against the late Senator MacCarthy at a time when it was not yet fashionable to oppose the anti-communists, it was an object lesson which must surely have made a great impression on the students at the College. And when a distinguished professor was forced to resign in protest against Faculty politics, it also had an effect. The current problem of the N.D.E.A. funds presents a classic ethical problem...
...students an understanding of both the privileges and responsibilities inherent in the professional estate. The truly professional man must be imbued with a sense of responsibility to employer and client, a high code of personal ethics and a feeling of obligation to contribute to the public good ... By precept and example, we must convey to [students] a respect for moral values, a sense of the duties of citizenship, a feeling for taste and style, and the capacity to recognize and enjoy the first-rate...