Word: moral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tisch is not afraid to let them do their jobs. "Everybody has a certain pride in their work," he says. "I'm not one to try to rank qualities of people. If it comes across to me that a person is doing the best work he can, with good moral standards and good business standards . . . that's what I look...
...township improvisations. But Woza Afrika! promises to hurl its viewers onto the other side of the fence, in the midst of the fray. Though far less polished than a Fugard play, Asinamali! is far more charged; its fury lies in its energy. Fugard's eloquent dramas turn upon the moral and emotional conundrums facing whites who wish to choose the right way; Woza Afrika! dwells on the more immediate sorrows of blacks who have no choice...
...even Frank is in the thrall of Ben (Dean Stockwell), an epicene drug dealer, who in turn is subject to the political power of a heavyset enigma in a yellow jacket. On that stroll in the woods, Jeffrey fell down the rabbit hole and found an inverted pyramid of moral monstrosity. "I am seeing something that was always hidden," he says. Now he can't take his eyes...
Last week Chavez derided Mikulski as a "San Francisco-style, George McGovern Democrat. People are going to reject her kind of liberalism." The Mikulski camp has countered with a charge that Chavez has "no moral anchor," a reference to her party switching. Nothing in these bareknuckle exchanges smacks of what journalists used to call petticoat politics...
...root cause idea. It is offered as an analytic tool to understand an unpleasant reality: revolutionary violence. But whether intended or not, the logic of the root cause argument suggests one of two attitudes toward the unpleasantness: 1) despair, because root causes cannot be changed, or 2) moral ambivalence, because legitimacy necessarily accrues to those who fight with root cause on their side. One must not find oneself "on the wrong side of history...