Word: virtuousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this virtuous circle keep spinning? Yes, says Robert Reischauer, a Brookings Institution senior fellow, in line with the Congressional Budget Office he once headed. The CBO forecasts a small surplus of around $8 billion this fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30, rising to perhaps $140 billion in fiscal 2008. Reischauer cautions, however, that the projections assume that the White House and Congress can clamp a tight lid on nonmilitary spending. In recent years, continued rises in civilian outlays have been offset by plummeting defense expenditures, but that drop has left little more...
Things have stepped up a bit here at Harvard, but not by much. We've had more sophisticated shows of singing and dancing (and thrown in some food after-ward) and impressive discussions on race issues in America today, but little else. These things are all virtuous in and of themselves, serving to commemorate and celebrate an all-too-often denigrated people, but where is the historical education? As far as I can tell, the extent of it was green table tents featuring black intellectuals who are admittedly more obscure than the usual famous faces...
Thomas Cotton (column, Feb. 4) explains that it is immoral for the American people to support a President during a time of peace and prosperity simply because his personal life is not "virtuous." This reasoning can lead to a nearly fascist conclusion, concentrating the morals of society in its political leadership, which was elected for secular purposes and has not abused its power over the American people...
Bill Clinton's latest imbroglio carries a valuable lesson in self-government. This lesson speaks to the fundamental presumption of democratic self-government, that the people have wisdom and virtue enough to elect politicians wise and virtuous enough to rule. That presumption is at bottom a moral one because it presumes a moral people...
First base, Faith; second base, Hope; third base, Charity, and short stop, Love. Other players were given virtuous titles: pitcher, Jesus Christ; catcher, Holy Ghost; batter, the Devil...