Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sacerdotal days of moral philosophy, political ethics was a self-confident teleology of actor and attitude. Now it is a demonology which defies system, scares off common sense, and in outlining political obligations, gives the citizen a Pirandellian sanction to do whatever it is he thinks he is doing. Perhaps it has always done so. But it took until this century to realize what an indiscriminate string of relativities shores up, say, even the treatises of John Locke. The Republic itself is built on sand...
...land was so fertile, plentiful and beautiful, that it seemed to sanction almost any kind of development. Bourgeois America pushed West, and those who suffered its encroachments, especially in the cities, could always move out West too. The point is that the purely practical, and therefore inhumane roots of America were allowed to grow strong before it was necessary to fight against them. There was simply so much faith in the prophecies of America's future that few even bothered to question them...
...study did not originate with a Faculty directive, but came from May personally. Thus, after it is completed and proposals have been determined, May must lobby with the Faculty for them. It is more difficult to persuade the Faculty to adopt the proposals of a study it did not sanction than the proposals of a Faculty-created committee, such as the Fainsod Committee...
three suspended requirements to withdraw for one term, to picketers with a prior record who did not participate in particular obstructions. They must remain under this sanction for one year...
...GREAT many informed Americans believe, justly or not, that the President is isolated, that he is not adequately exposed to reasonable opposing views. They believe that he has not offered the level of moral leadership which we so need. They believe that he has given undue sanction to members of his Administration who seem committed to divisive courses of action...