Word: vision
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Edward M. Kennedy '54 has been unwaveringly committed to his vision of social justice for almost 25 years. But recently, as speculation about his presidential aspirations has heated up for the umpteenth time, the man who urges his party to "sail against the wind" has apparently furled his sail...
...book's conclusion is a brief attempt to draw theoretical lessons from the experiences it recounts. It is entertaining and meaningful when Berger presents a utopian vision of a once decaying and polluted industrial city that has cleaned itself up and now exists in equilibrium with the environment...
Berger is the last to expect the sort of perfect restoration in his utopian vision. His book presents hope with a large dose of very guarded expectations. Yet the people he describes have started down the right road. As Congressman Udall declares at the end of his forward: "Their stories are an inspiration and a beginning. What follows...
...issues "related to student life." But this narrow definition of what it is proper and not proper for the student government to consider sounds more like an excuse to avoid whatever Offutt wants to avoid--in this case issues that involve morality and conscience. Only a person with selective vision can go through several years at Harvard-Radcliffe without seeing that the divestiture movement is an important part of life here. Also, the fact that as undergraduates we give thousands of dollars to the University makes us morally bound to the University's investment policies. Divestment is not only...
...approach brings up two problems. First, fighting for someone's rights while fighting the system of rights is paradoxical. Not all CLS people share the same radical social vision of a society with anarchy built into it, of a state with revolution built into it, but this idea is implicit in their synthesis of radical theory and legal practice. A possible analogy for this notion of internal revolution is that the kind of confrontation and dialogue that goes (or tries to go) on between the government of Harvard University and student protestors should be happening continually at all levels...