Word: moralisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conflict with the right to privacy. That is why I agree with Solzhenitsyn that we cannot make an absolute of any specific good or freedom except the freedom of intelligence. Solzhenitsyn calls upon the West to stress obligations gather than rights. Our overriding obligation must be to "the moral obligation to be intelligent...
...visitor. "I am an eternal lover of peace," proclaimed Victor Álvarez, a fourth-year economics major. "But as a human being I cannot aspire to live in peace while there are people throughout the world who do not have that privilege. Therefore I stand ready to fulfill my moral commitment to extend internationalist aid to any underdeveloped country that may need it and request...
...Carol Burnett, Robert Altman, Chevy Chase, Norman Lear and 300 or so others dined on chicken and chili at Mario Thomas' place in Beverly Hills. "It's a life and death struggle,"' boomed Abzug. Burnett declared: "I've always been apolitical, but this is a moral issue." Besides, as she says, "I have an investment in the future. I have three daughters...
Capitalism must recover its moral content, argues Kristol, if it is going to survive. This is what Horatio Alger provided in such abundance for generations gone by. A businessman did not become a success just by making money. Heaven forbid! He was successful because capitalism encouraged certain character traits that used to be admired and are now disdained as "bourgeois virtues." For decades, writes Kristol, "liberal capitalism has been living off the inherited cultural capital of the bourgeois era and has benefited from a moral sanction it no longer even claims. That legacy is now depleted, and the cultural environment...
...collaborator lies in his intuitive understanding that the only undying love is unrequited love. In Uncle Vanya, Vanya (William Hutt) is desperately smitten with Elena (Martha Henry), wife of the crabbed Professor Serebriakov (Max Helpmann), who is many years her senior. Not out of any binding moral scruples, Elena treats Vanya's advances with lacerating indifference. Sonya (Marti Maraden), Vanya's niece, has adored Dr. Astrov (Brian Bedford) for six years, and he has never been aware of it for six seconds. Astrov in turn lusts for Elena, and lust is within commuting distance of love, but again...