Word: moral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rules regulating such ties nor normative/ethical rules governing scholarship and intellectual life; 2) that normative/ethical rules governing scholarship and intellectual life are humbug anyway, especially when set against the imperatives of state; and 3) that the real scandal surrounding l'affaire Safran is the combined pompous posturing of moral rectitude by Safran's colleagues and the Harvard administration (on both of whom Helprin comes down very hard...
...provisional Belorussian Cabinet, conspires in the deaths of strangers, then acquaintances, then family friends. His children witness the double-dealing and slaughter, committed by Germans and by Russian-sponsored Belorussian insurgents with equal abandon. Long before adolescence, the Kabbelski children are plunged into a world void of moral order. Kabbelski's soul-destroying deals are, moreover, made in vain: abandoned by the Germans, who are losing, and cheated by fellow Belorussians, who are maneuvering for postwar advantage, he becomes a fugitive. The family breaks up, but he and some of his clan finally fetch up in Australia, where they live...
...elfin jock swagger, Gung Ho is agreeable. But its relentless stereotyping of the Japanese provokes winces and worse. Its tone swings violently from pratfall to preachment, from an indictment of featherbed laziness to an extended beer-commercial celebration of the mythical American worker. Perhaps the brand of canny moral exuberance that Gung Ho finally prescribes is available these days only to Presidents, evangelists and coaches in the N.C.A.A. Final Four. On the big screen it seems suffocatingly smug...
Perhaps Fellini, who like his stars is in his 60s, is copping a generational plea: "Our kitsch is better than your kitsch." Maybe he means for us to see the faltering but brave Amelia and Pippo as surrogates for himself, still worthy of sober interest, maybe even moral admiration, although the headlines now go to younger directorial stars. Certainly he insists on pumping out more of the "Felliniesque," his trademark blend of the grotesque and the surreal, than we need to get his point that TV is vulgar and coarsening. More moving is his presentation of two carefully imagined archetypes...
...usually paid by insurance). These patients pose a knotty ethical dilemma for doctors as well --a conflict between the duty to sustain life and the obligation to relieve suffering. With few professional guidelines to help them resolve the conflict, doctors have frequently decided to continue treatment because of their moral qualms or fear of legal consequences...