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...sensitive thinkers--Shelley's "unacknowledged legislators of the world"--in the face of the challenge of unflinching mandarin elites. Walzer, thus, justifies his own commitment to radical principles as the ground work for his passive vision of a just society. But he does not completely abandon the revolutionary zeal of his earlier years. In the '80s, he cannot reasonably expect to form an intellectual vanguard for a socialist revolution, but he can justify his moral theorizing with Rousseau's dictum--"If I were prince or a legislator, I should not waste time in saying what wants doing; I should...
...clear whether Democrats in the new Congress will lose their zeal for other issues once dear to their party or unite in a mindless out-party opposition to whatever the incoming Reagan Administration proposes. Either way they could contribute to the widespread reputation of a disorganized and interest-ridden Congress as being part of the nation's problems rather than as a body offering solutions...
...churches they hadn't paid much attention to," he said. The Episcopal Diocese did contribute $5000 to the effort, "but not without protest," Rodman said. (Although he did not disclose the extent of the debt, Luster acknowledged that the Covenant is not seeing flush times. "In our zeal and our haste we weren't as frugal as we could have been," he said...
Kemeny set the tone for the weekend, one of not-so-sublimated violence. Off the field, the members of this heavily wooded campus displayed a pathological zeal. Fights erupted at almost all of the 22 frats Friday night, and the attitude toward the enemy was one of open hostility. Even alumni--slightly more civil and slightly more drunk--made clear their desire to "flush the Johns," as signs all over the campus cleverly stated...
...news, unfortunately, undermines the good. Damage control efforts by Western and moderate Third World members of the MacBride Commission were only partly successful. Reflecting the missionary zeal of its UNESCO drafters, the report is permeated with a preference for a guided, rather than an independent, press. One key passage calls for "the formulation by all nations, and particularly developing countries, of comprehensive communication policies linked to overall social, cultural, economic and political goals." Another, obviously aimed at the international news agencies, recommends "effective legal measures designed to circumscribe the action of transnationals by requiring them to comply with specific criteria...