Word: moral
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...moral appeal, however, the Kansas City plan's achievements appear modest when weighed against its enormous expense. The number of out-of-district white children enrolled at the magnet schools peaked at 1,476 last year. Standardized test scores have registered slight gains. White flight, while substantially slowed, has not been reversed: in 1985, the year before the magnet plan began, the district was 73.6% minority; this year it is 75.9% minority. If nothing else, horrible school facilities have been replaced with nice new ones, and for some that is justification enough. "I bet a lot of kids in Kansas...
Alcott, who described her famous novel Little Women as "moral pap," said Harvard students were generally too busy to talk with her for very long...
...never know how the game would have ended. Baer has proved that he can be both wrong and arrogant, but he is obviously not stupid. On April 1, he helped the man who appointed him by reversing his ruling, which left the President free to climb back onto the moral high ground. "It's important not to get into the business of characterizing judges based on one decision they make," Clinton said almost immediately after Baer fell on his gavel. Dole, too, accommodated the changed landscape with stunning speed. "I don't suggest we ought to be able to pressure...
Americans have sometimes sought a kind of moral cleansing in children's adventures (Tom Sawyer's, to start with). It is part of an American theology of redemption by kids--a sentimental reassertion of the nation's conception of its own innocence. It is especially important to stage such pageants when Americans are feeling dirty about something. Jessica Dubroff's adventure--a Disney story of redemption by a seven-year-old, a '90s remake of Shirley Temple playing Charles Lindbergh--might have worked as a gaudy, cute, uplifting antidote to the shaming mess of the Simpson trial...
Cotton Mather's daughter Nanny fell into the fire and burned herself. Mather cried, "Alas, for my sins the just God throws my child into the fire!" The child was a moral adjunct mingling with the Puritan's internal devils. With equal unrealism, some American parents today envision their children as geniuses or angels. Wanda Kaczynski, of course, represented the style of an older generation of parents, but her child rearing bore traces of the obsessive. Later American parents sometimes have a tendency to practice a retro-projection that amounts to a search for their own lost, sweet, brilliant, childish...