Word: truths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SKEPTICS will always wince at cliches about youth rebellion and yarns of repressive society, but perhaps it is because they are the ones in control. The truth is that any society sets standards, and ours sets quite a few. When those standards become so complex and exacting that your mind feels full of pins and needles and your life is spent on everything but yourself...
USUALLY, ONLY the photographs are true. Usually, the words and numbers--telling us of the hundreds of millions who would die, and of the smoking, charred rubble and flesh that would remain--seem more like lurid black humor than objective reporting. Or worse, the truth of nuclear war gets omitted completely--it is a truth too sensational to be believed, too obscene to be printed...
...Boston Study Group comes closer to the truth than most. Its members--four academies, a politician and a graphics artist--have thought about the consequences of nuclear war. They have imagined Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and have wrought their vision into The Price of Defense, a book about the American military that is at once humane and informative, radical and sensible, evident yet original. For the most part, they have avoided both the military jargon that sanitizes insanity and the tired, violent rhetoric of destruction. Though the book's voice is somewhat anonymous (an inevitable result of group writing) occasionally lapses...
...think that academic freedom is best preserved if we shrink from exercising it. I do not think academic freedom is best preserved if we deny the social consequences of our investment policies. I would have thought that academic freedom meant finding and speaking and acting the truth regardless of the consequences. I would have thought that in this case. Harvard ought to act on the merits of the case, without fear of retaliation. I would have thought that academic freedom would mean that the University would throw its considerable weight as an investor, as a leader of public opinion, into...
...that sincerity is of course met by followers who cannot face the discipline required on the road to truth and beauty by way of pinball and multiple handicaps. The denoument is the most powerful moment of the show. The chorus finally breaks from its orderly line and rises to destroy Tommy, singing, "We're Not Going to Take It." And Westelman, alone, singing the most famous line of them all, "See me, feel me, touch me, heal me," gives the show its final, genuine power...