Word: truisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...offended by Kurzman's implications regarding the effects of intercollegiate athletics on the Harvard community. He contrasts the "frivolous" support of the student body for our athletic teams to the "non-frivolous" student activities undertaken by the remaining (presumably serious) students at this university. He rests on the unspoken truism that sports do little to enrich the spectator because they do not stimulate the mind. It is very hard to successfully argue the merits of football against ballet, hockey against drama, sweat against culture. I will not attempt to compare a wrestling match to a pas de deux...
...Life isn't fair," is the proverbial response to a bad lottery number. This axiom is indeed a truism in the real world where people who have more money are able to afford better housing. Why not adopt this approach for housing at Harvard? Undeniably, a suite in Lowell House would get more on the market than one at North House, in Harvard's terms. How about offering those spacious suites to the highest freshmen bidders...
...This truism is not relevant to Playboy, for the magazine, thanks in part to news coverage generated by The Crimson's dispute and by prominent coverage on page one of this newspaper, is having "free speech" a-plenty. The argument is relevant to those who voted not to publish the advertisement, because they failed to see their own self-interest. Put simply, they did not have enough faith in our community to believe that female students would be as repulsed by the concept of posing nude for Playboy (and by the magazine itself) as women at The Crimson were...
...EARLY 19th century, a woman who married gave up all has property rights, and if she separated from her husband, she had no right to see her children again. It's a truism to say that steady, dramatic improvement in women's opportunities has occurred since, at least in the Western democracies. But we have discovered that complete legal equality, even in contemporary America, is hard to come by and, moreover, that legal equality does not always mean equality of economic opportunity, as the recent history of Blacks painfully shown. The history of what women have gained, and how, takes...
...other truism that has been applied in this ethical equation two wrongs don't make is an indictment, for attempted murder and a trial of Bernhard Goetz that is a fair as possible in a city where-violence is accepted even applauded, and possession of a handgun is illegal but shooting four other people, apparently...