Word: moral
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Gingrich envisions a promised land--an America that may lie just over the horizon, in his cherished Third Wave Information Age, where traditional values connect to the future. He hopes to get to a place beyond poverty and violence and moral decay by leaving behind the welfare state and the deadening, blockheaded bureaucratic mind of Washington: a renewed civilization, says Newt--Norman Rockwell in the 21st century, a wholesome Utopia. Newt's destination has the refulgence of a never-never land--that is, an ideal. But in America, ideals have always been a necessary and efficient form of national energy...
...Gingrich and his closest disciples feel one great disappointment about the year, it's that the whole messy, historic budget fight has consumed so much of the energy he had hoped to spend renewing American civilization. The merry cybernaut wants a new moral order, not just a new political one, in which the poor will find their salvation on the Internet and private charities will succeed where government bureaucracies have failed. However great Newt's achievement in political terms, it was not enough for people who talked in terms of rearranging the moon and planets, and saw in Newt...
...also important to remember that it was not so terribly long ago that Harvard classmates faced each other on the battlefield. A Confederate war memorial is not a reinforcement of slavery or white supremacy; it is a testimony to the fact that thousands of people--intelligent, brave and moral people--can be terribly, tragically wrong and die before they find that...
...country and the representative of the Big Ten's 11 teams in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day against U.S.C. of the Pac 10. Barnett is in fact taking the Purple to Pasadena. What makes Northwestern's comeback story even nicer is that there's a moral to it: colleges can win and maintain high academic standards at the same time...
Oneness had a moral value for Brancusi, as both the origin and the aim of consciousness. It is marvelously expressed in sculptures like Sleeping Muse [III], 1917-18: the ovoid head inflected only by the ghost of a mouth, the delicate V of a nose and the incisions of hair, one of which follows an existing flaw in the veined marble. Part of the magic of his work is its sensitivity to material. Substance and metaphor fuse...