Word: dose
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Earth Day 1990 is destined to follow the new tradition of Live Aid, Sport Aid and Band Aid: it will appeal to the abbreviated American attention span $ with a huge 24-hour dose of stunts, palaver and celebrity hoo-ha. But the environmental movement will be able to survive its commercial mugging, dust itself off and plod forward toward its goal of a cleaner planet. For Earth Day is merely marginal, a loud fashion statement for a quiet revolution in American life. From East Los Angeles to Taylor, N.Y., the morning after Earth Day will find millions of ordinary environmentalists...
Unfortunately, for every dose of education there's a double dose of "ecomerchandising" trailing right behind. Of course, some products--such as mugs and recycled paper goods--are dedicated to the environment in function as well finance. And the recent barrage of "50 things you can do..." books have some valuable suggestions to offer, although their McEnvironment formats tend to trivialize the gravity of the problem...
...America tuning in? One reason may be the refreshing dose of real- world grit these shows provide. "With Ozzie and Harriet, everyone felt guilty," says Barbara Cadow, a psychologist at U.S.C. School of Medicine. "With these new programs, we see that we're doing all right by comparison." Alvin Poussaint, associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and an adviser to The Cosby Show, suggests that these shows, with their exaggerated nastiness, are an "outlet for people who feel, yeah, they really would like to knock the kid in the head, but they know it's wrong...
...journal of opinion; it's the language of a tent revival. For the Peninsula editors, Harvard isn't a place for the pursuit of truth, but the maintenance of Truth--the defense of dogma against dissenters. Forget thinking, exploration and questioning. What this "moral wasteland" needs is a healthy dose of belief...
...naturalist fallacy in this argument is easy to discern. By the author's moral criteria, taking a dose of penicillin to cure strep throat is a profoundly immoral...