Word: moralisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sick with disgust at the behavior of the so-called authorities, who far too often react to every moral question raised by the young with incredible stupidity and obscene cruelty. This grandmother is full of contempt for the lazy, sloppy sheep of her generation who prefer to maim or kill a child rather than question their own joyless values...
...emphasize their original function of teaching and reduce the stress on research. Some of the links that have been established with outside business and government may have to be severed. The behavioral-science departments, which have absorbed much of the liberal arts curriculum, might well concentrate more on the moral center of man rather than his peripheral reactions to assorted social stimuli. Even the armed forces are under pressure to change in order to accommodate the new career notions. Enlisted men may never elect their officers, as some rebels propose, but they are quite likely to enjoy expanded rights...
What bothers many critics of the chaplaincy is that a minister serving the armed forces is forced to compromise his right to be a religious prophet, to speak out against the sins of the times, including morally questionable wars. Army Field Manual 16-5 makes it clear that the Army sees the chaplain's role as a military support mission: to "supplement and reinforce the total instruction of the troops in the Code of Conduct by his spiritual and moral leadership and his personal presence during combat and combat training." And as an officer, the chaplain is legally obliged...
...technical preceptors in literature were Henry James and Joseph Conrad, two authors who shared an ability to interweave seamlessly dramatic theme and moral vision. Pooh-poohing grandiose abstractions, she persistently reasserted that the prime requisites for fiction are specific details, concrete images and exact sensations. "The fact is that the materials of the fiction writer are the humblest. Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough...
...perfect beauty, symmetry, strangeness, originality, and moral truth. Pretending to be a curio, it cannot disguise the fact that it is one of the great works of art of this century...