Word: moral
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have to make a moral and intellectual judgment on someone who compares Jews to Nazis," Peretz said this summer. "This is not a matter of someone being just pro-Palestinian, a legitimate public position. When [Gore] saw this, he had to make a decision...
...part, I read the book and I thought 'Oh my God. This is so strange,'" says NICOLE KIDMAN, the wife in question. The character who gave her the nod is a mariticidal lunatic, but Kidman was flattered. "Even though Suzanne's totally wild and has a completely different moral code from the rest of us, I think there was something really cool about her." It's a unique perspective, but then Kidman says she also really liked To Die For director Gus van Sant's last film, the universally loathed Even Cowgirls Get the Blues...
...part be cause of the conservative backlash against affirmative action, it has become fashionable to dismiss black and Latino complaints of discrimination as either mere pleading for preferential treatment or hallucinations, until an incontrovertible piece of evidence such as the Fuhrman tapes comes along. Then, inevitably, a surge of moral condemnation washes across the country like a cathartic wave--and subsides without any lasting effect. By the time the next ugly story surfaces, we're right back in denial mode...
...reckoning, Alan Keyes, the first-ever black Republican candidate for President, is not running to win; he is running to raise the moral level of the debate. And the debate, as far as he's concerned, is not about Bosnia or balanced budgets or even welfare reform; it is about a "corrupt concept of freedom," a kind of national selfishness that he claims has perverted the dream of the Founders. From that debased vision comes not only the epidemic of single mothers and out-of-wedlock births, but what to him is the epitome of licentiousness: abortion. His harping...
...true meaning of the Declaration, he asserts, was distorted by another American scourge: slavery, which he considers the moral equivalent of abortion. "Slavery is not an academic point to anyone like me," he says. "And I will defend the unborn just as I would have fought against slavery." It was precisely this apocalyptic message, which he articulated in a bravura eight-minute speech at a New Hampshire candidates' cattle show last February, that sparked his support among conservative Christians, as like-minded radio hosts around the country replayed his speech...