Word: moralisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little vague on their complaint." May recalls now, "It's undoubtedly a one-sided way to put it. but their complaint seemed to be that the course was not an indictment of American imperialism. It's not fair to say that Sam (Williamson) and I argue a moral defense of American diplomacy, but we do have an analytical framework...
...self-made upstart in the imperial army, with such class handicaps as a railway-clerk father. By dint of hard work and undemonstrated brilliance, Redl rises to high military and social rank and becomes deputy chief of the army's espionage service. Sexually, he undergoes a kind of moral regress. A disinclination to make love to women awakens him to his own homosexuality. As an ever more active queer, he is blackmailed by Russian intelligence into turning traitor. At play's end, he is exposed, presented with a pistol, and shoots himself...
Darlington states, for instance, that the incest taboo, which is not only common to all human societies but is regarded as a moral decision to avoid the hazards of inbreeding, is, in fact, instinctive. Just as evolution forbids self-pollination to the hermaphrodite flower, so evolution prohibits incest in man. "In a stable world," he writes, "[inbreeding] allows, it even guarantees, success. But in a changing world it brings disaster. For the inbred race in plants, animals or men is uniform and predictable like a variety of potato. Faced with new situations, new environments, it is quickly displaced in competition...
ROBERT LEE WOLFF, Coolidge Professor of History and chairman of the Faculty's conservative caucus, held his regular class. Slightly more than half his students attended. Wolff said that "if I stopped lecturing every time I was full of moral outrage, would not lecture at all, because I'm full of moral outrage every...
...what are essentially their anti-government beliefs. The Conspiracy charged by the government was in effect the Resistance itself, and the five figurehead defendants were held responsible for the entire draft-card burning, induction-refusal movement. One assumes that the government could not tolerate the tremendous anti-war moral tide unless it could be boiled down to a conspiracy. That not one of the men knew another any more than in passing made no difference to the charge of conspiracy. Shared beliefs equal conspiracy when the government needs a charge...