Word: morale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...accepting it; we're inducing it. "I could argue for the economic value of preservation--the biotechnology that leads to the discovery of medicines and so forth," he says. "But if you push me to the wall, I'm for zero deforestation, zero extinction. I believe we have a moral obligation to other species. The only real reason for saving them is that it's right...
...than in a court of law. In that venue, he has already been punished. Despite the bravado he flashed on the courthouse steps when he denounced independent counsel Donald C. Smaltz as a "schoolyard bully," Espy knows he blew a historic opportunity by losing sight of age-old black moral traditions...
...Robinson than Michael Jordan. When he broke baseball's color line in 1947, Robinson set the superhuman standard of conduct for such racial pioneers. He knew that to be considered a success by prejudiced whites, he had to be not only a superstar player but also a paragon of moral behavior. For his first few seasons, he left his combative temper in the locker room, suffered insults without fighting back and played his heart out on the field. He refused to give his opponents a weapon they could use against him, and in the end, earned universal, if in some...
...strictures, to be sure, were a self-imposed double standard rooted in the gloomy conviction that blacks would never get a fair shake from racist America. But unfair as they were, the precepts had the salutary effect of encouraging blacks both to do their best and keep to the moral high ground...
...echoes of Cecil B. DeMille's 1956 essay in panoramic kitsch, The Ten Commandments (including the climactic Red Sea parting), and its Oscar-laden sibling, the 1959 Ben-Hur (including the chariot race). All are about two young men, raised as brothers, whose proud convictions set them on a moral and political collision course...