Word: virtuous
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Surely, the handful of shorts wearers must get cold, and some of them go as far as to admit that they do. Ed Park '96 considers wearing shorts a "virtuous activity, [but] one that risks certain things...like losing your legs." Others claim they simply do not get as cold as normal people. Several, times, shorts-clad Don Hayler '97 has offered his jacket to a friend. "They are just more cold than I am," he states. Mark Yokoyama '96, who wore shorts all the time until he bought a "really cool pair of pants," argues that his high body...
...supposedly virtuous high road of race preference has taken the nation into dubious terrain. America's chattering classes have been beguiled by the idea of compensatory unfairness. They have not recognized it for what it is: a flirtation with the devil, a deepening reliance on the principle that formed the foundation of slavery, the Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow. This was the poison at the center of apartheid and Hitler's Nuremberg Laws...
...royals do satisfy our need for instant gratification--so why not acknowledge it and give them their own television series? "Melrose Place" and "90210" will finally have some stiff competition. After all, as the Economist points out, even Bagehot conceded that to expect the sovereign always to be "virtuous [is] not rational...
...weird way convincing: they bite off so much more than they can chew that you can't help assenting to them. And the target of their moralizing is none other than Andrew Jackson, who Cole (and many of his patrons) feared was becoming an American Caesar, filling the once virtuous republic with the corruptions of opportunism. It seems that Cole the landscapist and Cole the magniloquent history painter were not, as was once thought, different artists. They were the same man, embodying the same peculiarly American anxiety...
...American life. For the generations that fought World War II and the cold war, those values were pluralism, freedom of individual opportunity, integration and free speech. The goal of universities, cultural institutions and most journals of scholarship and opinion was to open the American experience -- ipso facto a virtuous and desirable one -- to all comers, regardless of race, creed, color or, later on, gender. American culture was considered so good that no one should be denied a chance at it, and no one should be assumed unable to appreciate or comprehend...