Word: tenet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cautionary tale about today's athletes, Playwright Lawrence Kelly's vision is at least a compelling metaphor for the way decent people in all walks of life slip into dishonesty. Kelly's perception is that the Black Sox did not cheat as individuals. They did so, following the basic tenet of their sport, as a team. Money may have been the bait but loyalty and comradeship were the motives that persuaded them, some with great reluctance, to betray their talents. As Chick Gandil (Paul Christie), the sour ringleader of the scam, remarks in an aside, people become willing...
...School--if he had gone to Yale Divinity School, he might have learned something. An irrefutable application of the "just war" concept did not occur until the fight against Nazi Germany. Charlatan theologians such as Robertson and Falwell have absolutely no authority to embrace the Contras with this tenet...
...which can be summarized as "well, the protestors were wrong to try to keep these murderers from speaking, I guess." The matter, contrary to Mr. Katz's formulations, is really quite simple: the rowdies in Boylston Auditorium who threw glass and red paint at the speakers violated the central tenet of academic discourse, the free expression of all sides of an argument. On a matter as emotional and divisive as U.S. policy in Centra America there is simply no room for such attempts to squelch opposing viewpoints...
...forgive and reform our problem children, but all too often this humane tenet of civilization is over-whelmed by the inhumane clamour for violent reprisal. Regretably, Meese and others have opted for the pessmistic, medieval alternative, and the immediate gratification of the lust for retribution will be the unjustifiable execution of 31 more death-row inmates who were convicted while they were still children in the eyes...
...internationalized in 1835 under the leadership of Mother, later Saint, Maria Euphrasia, who emphasized gratitude as the basis of the order's faith and works. "Vous avez un coeur fait pour aimer, fait pour etre reconnaissant." (You have a heart created to love and to be grateful.) Theologically, the tenet of gratitude is seen as the opposite of original sin because it grasps God as the source of all that is good. Mary Paul translates this idea into appreciation: "The staff truly appreciates the people they represent." Both she and Geraldine de-emphasize the role of religion in the center...