Word: moralisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...variety of outlooks, and people felt that in an intangible way the newspaper or magazine of their choice 'belonged' to them. Now the press is viewed as dominating and monolithic, a part of a power triad with government and industry. Large sections of the population, the majority even--from moral conservatives to radical reformers--feel alienated by a liberal, mildly progressive press which treats them implicitly as variations from some "truthful" consensus. And though the profusion of books is democratic in the extreme, and there is no lack of diverse and freely expressed opinions, this abundance is infected with...
Presidential National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski argues that the human rights initiative has put the U.S. "back on the moral offensive" round the globe. It is, in fact, a characteristically American effort to achieve something most nations would consider quixotic-combining world power with moral principle. The human rights campaign, unveiled by Carter in his Inaugural Address, has also been the object of more passionate advocacy and more scornful criticism than any other single element of his foreign policy. Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev has denounced the human rights policy as interference in the internal affairs of other countries. A number...
...Russian pogroms, Rattner after World War I settled in France, where his work was influenced by both the impressionist and the cubist schools. He returned to the U.S. in 1940 convinced by the rise of Nazism that art should not merely concern itself with style, but should deal with moral and spiritual issues. These he depicted not only on canvas but in tapestries, stained-glass windows and portfolios of prints. Among Rattner's best-known works are the paintings Gomorrah and Vision of Ezekiel, and a stained-glass window in a Chicago synagogue called And God Said: Let There...
...students said yesterday they are in favor of the academic societies, but fear they may eventually be made compulsory. A third-year student said the societies are "a sincere attempt to ease some of the isolation brought on by the workload, but I don't see them as a moral proposition...
...almost the same way, the Harvard hockey team has wrestled with otherwise easy opponents this year too many times. No major decision, not even a moral victory. Just out and out upset losses to teams like Penn and Princeton, who in previous years the Crimson would blow away before laughing...