Word: moral
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...into the lead? Certainly not due to a warm personality or a charismatic speaking style. Not a seasoned politician, Forbes often appears uneasy and awkward when speaking to or personally greeting potential voters. He is adept at stressing an economic message but falters when faced with some of the moral issues that conservative voters want to hear about. For example, at a recent campaign stop in Iowa, when asked about his position regarding same-sex marriages, Forbes hesitated uncomfortably and then stammered incoherently like a rookie on a high school debate team. Yet, he has distinguished himself from the other...
This objectification of sex has effected incalculable damage on the mental psyche of American youth. The sexual realm is one of youth's most formative experiences; it becomes value neutral along with sexual practice. Could such a black hole of morality be the cause behind a return to religion at Harvard? Most definitely; students have become overwhelmed by the nebulous and ultimately unsatisfactory state of momentary knowledge. They are searching for greater, more absolute truths and moralities that fall precisely within the realm of the University. Yet Harvard remains aloof in the debate over a value-less world. The disturbing...
...Harvard. We should do everything we can to encourage people to visit their doctors instead of forcing them to jump through a series of expensive hoops just to stay healthy. While many economists claim that Americans overuse the medical system, concern for Harvard employees should outweigh the possible moral hazard...
...university. These direct encounters between a brilliant young African-American and a cadre of progressive New England academics produced living proof for DuBois that people of different races could meet and work on common terms, could respect one another, and could strengthen one another's commitment to the important moral as well as intellectual values essential to serious education...
...laid out in this record of sociopathology, Hasselbach's conversion seems less a moral rebirth than simply the end of an unpleasant, unpromising stage of life. Part of this can be blamed on the book's remorselessly deadpan style. Part is owing to the narrative's unnerving emotional detachment, "an awful condition I still fight against," he admits. Understandably Herr Hasselbach has much from which to detach himself...