Word: morale
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...debate on carbon emissions and climate change heats up [Jan. 29], I am amazed that a lot of discussions ignore overpopulation. We have been breeding like locusts, filling every available space and devouring all available resources. The planet simply cannot sustain such population growth. Tackling this problem raises difficult moral, ethical and sociological issues. But if we ignore it, the consequences for humankind are unimaginable...
...play itself is a highly dramatic take on the moral gray areas hidden behind the black and white habits of a Catholic middle school in the 1960s. Where formal propriety has overtaken ethical responsibility and the appearance of certainty is all that remains, the characters struggle to reconcile order and truth. Jones leads the cast as Sister Aloysius, a teacher who plows headfirst through level after level of rigid Catholic bureaucracy to protect her students from the sexual advances of Father Flynn (Chris McGarry), a popular priest...
...director’s purview, in this case it seems inappropriate to assign the blame to Hughes. His direction draws crisp lines through the drama that highlight Shanley’s straightforward storytelling, and each character’s journey appears both distinct from and part of the murky moral scenery—all admirable directorial achievements...
...wanted Ethical Reasoning to be a more inclusive, or a more expansive, category than the current ‘Moral Reasoning’ requirement,” Simmons said, referring to a category in the present Core Curriculum...
...somethings” wrong with the novel: a frequently dull plot supported by flaccid prose, an inability to fully comprehend or adequately portray its complex and weighty subject, an overriding sense of banality posing as profundity, and a philosophical heart that is as intellectually dissatisfying as it is morally troubling. Of course, it also contains intermittent hints of brilliance, but they come in all the wrong places and dissipate all too quickly.Mailer’s narrator, who at first claims to be an SS agent but quickly reveals himself to be a mid-level demon (literally), promises...