Word: moral
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Amongst expressions of shock and sadness, many searched for a moral to this terrible story. "It has really shaken everyone...that something like this could actually happen in our own city. It's a great tragedy for all of us in the city and it's a traumatic experience for our young people," said Councillor Timothy J. Toomey Jr. "It just reiterates how much we have to take care of our young children...
...Professor of Philosophy Richard A. Moran at Moral Reasoning 56: "Self, Freedom, and Existence" yesterday, fumbling on the word "omnipotence...
...Promise Keepers gives moral legitimacy to men who wish to regain power," said Promise Keepers spokesperson Jay Coakly in a recent New York Times interview. "Men in general, and white men in particular, feel they haven't been treated fairly and they need to get together to make sure that won't happen in the future...
...this is obvious--for example, in an outburst of anger or a fit of jealousy. But even such "good" emotions as affection can be instruments of control wielded out of insecurity. (Ever notice how your social failures outside the home can make your mate suddenly more endearing?) And the moral indignation hurled at a spouse--over his or her coldness, rudeness, sloppiness, whatever--may feel high-minded but is often crassly self-serving. The emotional world of the family, Bowen believed, can be a jungle of realpolitik and a source of endless turbulence...
...responsibility of the public through tax monies," said Lois Jean White, president of the national PTA. Other critics weren't so diplomatic. "It's not an 'extra' when you're talking about subsidizing salary for a teacher," says Jonathan Kozol, author of the 1991 book Savage Inequalities. "The moral justification of public education is being ripped apart...