Word: religion
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Puritans believed that everyone was intolerant. People differed only in what they held important. To a Puritan, religion was supreme--to be tolerant therefore was to be untrue to one's own faith. Today, however, open-mindedness can easily become apathy. The best way to really learn what one believes, of course, is to find out what others believe--and then judge...
...this school where diversity is the highest good, religion has a constricted place. That is why the Boston Church of Christ seems so out of place. The church brings religion into the open. Members believe strongly enough to want to share their beliefs--in the Boston Garden or in a Harvard dining hall is a more than fitting place to seek converts...
...INABILITY of Harvard students to talk about their faiths may be part of a general trend in the United States. And it may not be all bad. When religion wasn't the private matter it is now, Quakers were hanged on Boston Common...
...then the church should be controlled on campus. Harvard, however, should be sure it is acting to safeguard students' rights to make their own choices. Otherwise, efforts against the church might have more to do with Harvard's arrogance, and with its unfortunate feeling that those who talk about religion are just a bit too impolite to be endured...
...Simon's current appeal is the very thing that could % prove his undoing: his frequent claims that "more than any other candidate I have demonstrated that I am willing to do what's unpopular." His sartorial and ideological independence, along with his fealty to the old-time Democratic religion, can do little more than grant him his 15 minutes of celebrity. To become President, he must make sure that these go-it-alone traits do not begin to seem like studied eccentricity, wearisome piety and philosophical quaintness...