Word: symptom
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...website maintains that “following God must be a decision made from the heart, and not because one has been manipulated into blind obedience.” Yet critics cite physical and psychological control as another cult-like symptom of the BCC. Members are told that their church preaches the one true faith and that all non-members are going to hell. Leaders urge friendship only within the group and encourage members to live with one another. To leave the church is to leave God, they are told, and doing so is detrimental not only to one member...
...Harvard community to decide university policies, the new administration is heading backwards. The president and deans’ recent decision to punish sit-in participants more severely not only reflects a sad lack of understanding of the undemocratic university governance that necessitates such actions but is moreover a symptom of those very problems. It was made without the slightest input from students or faculty, demonstrating that administrators remain uninterested in involving anyone else in decisions of broad importance...
...Wing ’02, Jean J. Ryoo ’02 and Arwen K. O’Reilly ’02, as well as sculptor Kurt D. Mueller ’02—seem to further a well-worn thesis: commercialism is both cause and symptom of a deep-seated sickness of American—or Western?—culture, one that champions quantity at the cost of quality, efficiency at the cost of beauty...
...closer look at the show as a whole—not as a complex of the work of four distinct artists—reveals telling philosophical nuance. Taken as gestalt, the show is not a social critique at all: it is an indictment of art itself, as a symptom of industry, as fundamentally hypocritical in its dialogue with commercial culture...
...intermediate grade between an A-minus and a B-plus, corresponding to a 13 on Harvard’s grading scale. This, supposedly, would fight the current compression of the grade spectrum and give professors another option to reward excellent work. But this also addresses the symptom, and not the cause, of grade inflation. Harvard has enough grades—12 in all, from A to E with all the pluses and minuses in between—that it would have no trouble distinguishing between students if the system were applied correctly. Adding another high grade would merely...