Word: moral
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will not comment beyond his published statements, has characterized Webb's new material as only "notes," and won't say whether he is going to run them.) "The nature of this story is a very dangerous idea," says Webb. "Once you go down this trail, you challenge the moral authority of the government, which is why I believe other media shied away from...
Campus activist and social studies concentrator Jedediah S. Purdy '97 said that his thesis on Michel de Montaigne "proposed that [Montaigne's] essays form a specifically literary style of moral argument that aims to reshape the reader's moral imagination...
...that and the failure to treat investment as a political and moral issue...that's really upsetting," said Jedediah S. Purdy...
...always found this attitude puzzling, because I don't feel that my experience as a Crimson editor has been especially daunting. During the 1960s, black students were beaten and jailed for holding sit-ins in segregated establishments, and I believe that such examples of boldness, moral conviction and fortitude constitute true struggle...
...Puritans meanwhile created a severe culture of practicality and moral rigor as they set out to build a virtuous Utopia in the wilds of the Northeast. What they wrought, Hughes says, has proved basic to how Americans view themselves even today. He visits the "Old Ship" meetinghouse in Hingham, Massachusetts, a stripped-down, foursquare building that embodies the seriousness and urgency of Puritan life. Puritans were also fixated on death, and in a simple wooded cemetery Hughes discusses why gravestones were their only acceptable art form...