Word: respectful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have already given way to a much less rigid set of values, among which economic success, a high income, the holiday trip, and the new car play a much larger part than the virtues of the past. Younger people especially display little of the much praised and much scorned respect for authority, and less of the disciplined virtues that for their fathers were allegedly sacred. A world of highly individual values has emerged, which puts the experienced happiness of the individual in first place and increasingly lets the so-called whole slip from sight...
This is an enormous concept, and cannot be taken lightly. With all due respect to the Harvard faculty and its integrity, and with all due compassion for the consequences of allowing into its midst a colleague who proves unsuited to his new role, one must clearly and simply dissent from the value hierarchy represented here (and again in the fourth point, below). Such reasoning manifests a series of traits one would hope it is the office of a Faculty of Arts and Sciences to destroy. If the matter were not so serious, this statement would stand as nothing more than...
...joining the Faculty, all members signify their willingness to be bound by majority decisions with respect to those matters about which the Faculty is authorized and competent to act. But few if any members joined with the understanding that they were to accept the right or competence of any particular part of the Faculty to speak for them on matters of conscience and politics...
...joining the Faculty, all members signify their will ingress to be bound by majority decisions with respect to those matters about which the Faculty is authorized and competent to act. But few if any members joined with the understanding that they were to accept the right or competence of any part of the Faculty to speak for them on matters of conscience and politics...
...decision which the Faculty faces on Tuesday with respect to the Vietnam War Motion may be of such consequence that I should like to corrcet before hand some misrepresentations of my own involvement in the issue. During the discussions of the past week I withheld my support until a clearly worded statement could be agreed upon. The statement of the Motion published in the CRIMSON on Friday met most of my objections and I can support...