Word: moral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Russian Research Center fellow Philip Clendenning saw as "preposterous," the notion that America, with its widespread "pick-up truck mentality" and "Moral Majority types," could possibly succumb to the bloodless victory depicted...
Like all good prehistoric beasts tend to do, the Dinosaur eventually disappeared, leaving behind only fossilized traces of his natural foodstuffs, his indigenous underwear, and his characteristic drug paraphernalia. He left behind no moral lessons, no cultural conundrums worth of opination, but only a stark example of the brutal spiral of natural selection, which fortunately left him with a brain incapable of responding to the printed word. Which means I won't get nuked...
...know that when Mr. Coors arrives Wednesday to speak at the Science Center he will be prepared to tell some clever lies about his company and those who oppose its practices. But if Harvard students want to maintain possession of the moral high ground they earn by protesting such villainous characters, they will have to make sure that their protests do not get out of hand. In an open community it is simply unacceptable to curtail the freedom of speech of any speaker, unless he is trying to incite violence through his remarks...
...generation owe to young people not the fulfillment of dreams but honesty. We must help younger people to understand why it is vital to keep memories alive. We want to help them to accept historical truth soberly, not one-sidedly, without taking refuge in utopian doctrines, but also without moral arrogance. From our own history we learn what man is capable of. For that reason we must not imagine that we are quite different and have become better. There is no ultimately achievable moral perfection. We have learned as human beings, and as human beings we remain in danger...
Though such numbers may seem small, proponents claim that contact tracing will help contain the spread of the disease, primarily among heterosexuals and in communities where it is not already prevalent. Those with AIDS, they say, have a moral duty to warn those they have put at risk. Critics of mandatory tracing charge that it may feed panic and hysteria. They stress that, unlike syphilis or gonorrhea, AIDS is so far incurable. Indeed, says Dr. Kevin Cahill, a member of New York City's board of health, some people who were told that they had been exposed to the virus...