Word: shame
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...generated economic expansion and the integration of Mexican Americans into Texas society. What do and will those two factors mean to Texas? Michener gives an account not only of the issues but also of the people and emotions behind them with an elegance that would put a sociologist to shame...
...divestiture movement has shown that activism for just causes is still alive on American campuses. One can argue about goals and effectiveness, but at the root of the divestiture movement lies a truly humanitarian impulse. It's a shame that so little seems left over for even more just causes...
Then, in August, when the Pentagon sent a military submarine on a maneuver through Canadian territory near the Arctic without asking permission, Brian Mulroney's Tory government hung its head in shame for the country's impotence. Criticism was lost in the wind; Canada had no clout...
This, no doubt, is indicative of a rather unique sense of moral responsibility to which we can only hang our heads in shame. Yet to be fair, Loury is in some respects morally indistinguishable from his liberal counterparts, since they too presuppose the moral validity of corporate capitalism. Differences where they do exist, are generally more on matters of technique and management. As a rule, elite academics can be bought cheaply. Loury is a minor footnote in this tradition. He is therefore a symptom of our malaise. And for that reason we must look elsewhere for examples of moral integrity...
...might have galvanized others to act; who knows, it might have been a catalyst that would have brought pressure for peaceful change that now seems impossible. Divestiture now would be as cynical and irrelevant as Ronald Reagan's sanctions. At this point we would do better to bear the shame of our past record silently. Stephen A. Marglin '59 Professor of Economics