Word: socially
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conservative, I dread being sucked into such debates (maybe that's why I try to make it a point to go to dinner just before the dining hall closes), because being a conservative heading into a political or social policy debate at Harvard is like leading the charge of the Light Brigade. You know you are going to be outgunned, possibly outwitted or, at the very least, shouted down, so the best you can do is hold your own and die honourably. If you try to show your liberal friends that you don't disagree that drastically with them...
...join the liberal enemy when it counts most--at the dinner table. They can't understand why a so-called conservative would argue for things like the feminist critique of male-dominated society or the need to genuinely address and not simply pay lip service to the increasing social inequality of our nation, as manifested in the festering inner-city, the plagued family farm and the inhabited park bench...
...true conservative thought is that it seeks to save elements in the social order worth preserving. The mistake of vulgar neo-conservatives is believing that everything is worth preserving (after all, things are usually rosy enough for them personally...
...mother, Zachary says, Hope has always tried to impart egalitarianism and concern about social issues to her son. "In bringing me up, she always tried to root out any kind of complacency, and she never permitted arrogance or elitism," he says...
Zachary says he is also concerned that the Harvard community will view his mother as a hard-line conservative. "She's always been concerned with social issues and social problems," he says. "In Washington, she's always had friends on both sides of the line...