Word: unjustness
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Obsessed already with what he saw as a wretched, horrifying and unjust world, Casals grew terribly pessimistic after violent events in Barcelona on May 1, 1890; he became obsessed with suicide. But, for the next half century, he placed this view of the world in the back of his mind in order to concentrate on the more perfect worlds of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven. During this period he revolutionized cello technique. He discovered the magnificence of the six long-neglected Bach suites for unaccompanied cello and brought this music before the public. He became the foremost cellist in the world...
...MOTHER, she is not only oppressed in her life, but what is more unjust, in the life of her children...
...Radcliffe Houses do not have individual House libraries and the new requirement that Quadrangle residents trek three-quarters of a mile for the most basic scientific data is just one more example of the mistreatment to which Quad residents have become accustomed. The inequity is even more unjust given the inordinately large numbers of science concentrators who live at Radcliffe...
...Supreme Court declared last spring (in San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez) that the current property tax system, ensuring quality education for the rich and poor education for the impoverished, is constitutional. Even so, many educators and taxpayers agree with Justice Potter Stewart that it is "chaotic and unjust...
...repository of a society's ethics and morals. It is of course also slavishly technical, extravagantly complex and simultaneously too precise and not precise enough. But its very imperfection is why it has need of lawyers constant ly to nurture its growth and to correct its sometimes unjust ways. Legal groups may need to devise new guidelines that somehow strike a better balance between the roles of counselor and advocate. But the chief difficulty is find ing and restoring to the profession its sense of duty to the continuing experiment of law. Some slight satisfaction can be salvaged from...