Word: moralisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hats off to David Aikman [July 31], who has the clarity of mind, the moral sense and the courage to expose the blind cruelty of Marxism when that atheistic, deterministic system runs its course unrestrained by Christian principles...
...should I be talking about running for President?" he said as he waved the big fork in the air. "There's a Democrat in the White House, there's no moral crisis in the country. What's the reason for running? For power? For what?" If Carter were not down in the polls, Kennedy added, nobody would be asking him questions. "When Carter goes down," he said wryly, "I go up." He had another thought about that. "The press made Jimmy Carter, and now they're trying to destroy him. I'm going...
...American who teaches at the Jesuits' Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, says such perplexities "no longer can be solved by a one-man fiat. The new Pope must avail himself of the wisdom of the church by calling a Vatican III to resolve the momentous doctrinal, disciplinary and moral problems...
...razor blades were perilously short. Rows of pup tents sprang up at the airport's entrance and many passengers overflowed onto a covered area near the parking lot. Groused Pat Shaw, a waitress from Buffalo: "I've slept on concrete for three days, and the big moral question facing me at night is whether to sleep in my clothes or on them...
...observations like this that grant Leakey's entertaining book its powerful moral underpinning. Only when mankind knows where it has come from can it tell where it is to go. Our past, observes Leakey, is beyond our control. Our future-and the choice between extinction or survival-is our own. -Peter Stoler...