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...members and finally, in 1964, its small treasury as well. That was just over a year after a new dean of the Faculty, Franklin L. Ford, told registrants in the 1963 summer session that Harvard was in many ways much like the pre-1789 French monarchy--"irrational, frequently unjust, tradition-bound, and culturally distinctive." If people tried to make sense out of the university, Ford warned, it "would come down in a shower of blood." It was also just over two years after The Crimson ran an article called "Revolution in the Harvard Yard" --about a new spirit among freshmen...
...public, aware of its rights and in tune to injustice. And in fields where their interests enter in, student representatives should play a decision-making role in considering who gets what jobs. In these ways, Harvard can hope to eliminate a recurrence of Kiely's unfortunate actions and the unjust general pattern they seem to represent...
Bell officials protest that price competition is not only unjust, but also a threat to the entire monopoly system that has put telephones in 94% of American homes. Only by charging tieline customers somewhat more than the service actually costs to provide, they contend, can AT&T hold down rates to users of its standard services. Federal regulators, they argue, should not permit its rates to be undercut by MCI, which has no obligation to maintain unprofitable service in rural communities, as Bell does. MCI executives reply simply that prices should reflect the cost of providing service: costly services should...
...loves, confirms his human dignity and his human worth despite the system, whatever system, whatever its representatives, prison guard or minister, which humiliates him, tortures him, strikes him down. It is not in the moment that he is falsely condemned, not in the days and years he serves his unjust term, that the individual forfeits his worth, but in the moment he accepts and justifies his "broken conscience" and forsakes his duty to himself and to his fellow men. The abdication of moral responsibility is the boundary between those still human in mind and heart and those whose greed, whose...
...Diderot sounds unjust, it is not simply because the tone of our culture has swung back to a less civilized amorality in which our pornography is brutish. It is because, when the routine conventions of his work are subtracted, Boucher remains a startling and almost great painter. The sensuousness, the lively plasticity of drawing, the marvelous sensitivity to color and texture, the ironic grasp of elaborate mythologies and allegories still remind us of Talleyrand's wistful epitaph on the ancien régime - that no one who did not live before the Revolution can know the sweetness of life...