Word: moralisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...community, however, there is a question whether Carter's blast at the oilmen will help him or hurt him with two other groups: the Senate and, even more important, the public at large. Despite repeated warnings about the energy crisis, impassioned presidential statements about energy conservation being "the moral equivalent of war" and reams of statistics about the nation's gluttonous consumption of oil and gas, nothing seems to have persuaded the public that things are that bad. But casting the oil industry as the chief villain will not necessarily persuade people that the energy crisis is "real...
...insightful scenes. When this couple make violent love, we can begin to understand the complex erotic passions that draw Theresa to her self-destructive double life. The rest of the film's brutality-its harsh language, its vicious climactic murder scene-are merely heavyhanded manifestations of Brooks' moral-mongering. The audience, not to mention Diane Keaton and Judith Rossner, deserve greater rewards in exchange for the punishment. - Frank Rich
...more likely to commit crimes) Beckwith believes it is more important to study the broader questions. "If scientists are given a free reign, they'll do whatever they want, and they will stop at nothing," he says. Beckwith's laboratory stopped performing recombinant DNA experiments because of his moral misgivings about the future results it could provide and because there are many other areas to be investigated, he says...
...bill with pro-gay orientation could get through the House, it was this one. State Rep. Barney Frank minimized the moral issue of homosexuality by cautioning the House that the bill was not a statement of support for gay rights but rather, as he says, "a request from one group of citizens that they want to work on the same terms as everyone else." Work, mind you, not love. That will have to come even later. And the bill failed. Why? Will it pass in 1979? 1989? Why do they force us to wait...
...homosexual in it. I came to Harvard expecting such an accomodating environment; in fact, that was a criterion for coming here. I expected such an environment because I had assumed that intelligent people, which I have subsequently found Harvard students to be, would be liberal and enlightened in their moral and political attitudes. Not so. They are bound by precedent and existing sentiment; they do not necessarily make decisions that arise from thought and responsible evaluation...