Word: utilitarianism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best and the glossiest of the catalogues today look more like coffee-table books than anything as utilitarian as advertising, and they are far better read. (No longer does anyone call these artful artifacts junk mail.) Their makers enlist some of the world's fanciest models to animate their laces and tweeds, boots and blue jeans, at a cost of $2,000-plus per bod per day. (Sears, Roebuck has even used Cheryl Tiegs as a cover girl.) Their photographers, including such luminaries as Victor Skrebneski and Alex Chatelain, command daily fees of $3,000 and more...
...Conway, president of Smith, echoes the prevailing view of contemporary technology when she says that "anyone in today's world who doesn't understand data processing is not educated." But she insists that the increasing emphasis on these matters leaves certain gaps. Says she: "The very strongly utilitarian emphasis in education, which is an effect of Sputnik and the cold war, has really removed from this culture something that was very profound in its 18th and 19th century roots, which was a sense that literacy and learning were ends in themselves for a democratic republic...
...behind his plea for neutrality in the nonacademic realm: a university must protect its vested interests for the sake of academic freedom. Thus he focuses on method instead of effect; thus he strives to make detached cost-benefit analyses; thus his motives and his morals are in the end utilitarian. But there is no organic, causal connection between interests and ideals--unless one is rationalized...
...appears incongruous that Bok, who is so attached to certain liberal civic values in Beyond the Ivory Tower, ignores a precept of John Locke's that preceded the felicific calculus of utilitarian theory: consent. Consent is signified by the things we say or do and suggests a commitment. When a corporate institution invests or accepts donations, it acts; it commits itself; and it confers legitimacy on the object of its enterprise. Viewed in this light, "neutrality"--even of the strictly defined type--becomes a facade for vested interests. If Harvard were to balance its arguably defensible investments or gifts with...
...MORE important sense, however, supporters of the PLO appearance and of Pattullo's decision to speak out are right to encourage the expression of unpopular views within the University community. If the formal right to free speech is not at stake, the practical, utilitarian rationale for unimpeded expression certainly is in suggesting that the Law School should not have invited Abu-Loghod to the conference, the HJLSA was effectively trying to close the door to alternative views--seeking to exclude the PLO because it found that group's activities objectionable. The GSA, too, sought to corner the market of ideas...