Word: moralisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Moral Judgment...
...involved, it makes as much sense as giving Nixon a third term. In all fairness to White, he has run the city better than the school committee has run the schools. Also, Schwartz says White has all the patronage he needs. White failed by never providing the city with moral leadership. As David Smith said. "We got to 1974 with segregated schools and no public official saying it was wrong." White never risked his political standing to confront the Kerrigans and Hicks' head-on over educational reform and desegregation...
...noted that Bruce did not become a mass audience comedian during his lifetime, and he would probably not make it as a nationally famous comedian today. Bruce's act could never sell records, and most of his material would be censored from television. The market for hard-core moralizing and satirizing is limited. Contemporary comedians toy with the freedom of expression they now enjoy without appreciating the power of their words to reveal, and so to help people explore and understand the unmentionable corners of their lives. The freedom to swear is a superficial freedom if it is not accompanied...
...that the film is visually stunning but thematically vacuous. But such criticism misses the point: Herzog's relentlessly realistic re-enactment of the trip--of the assumption of power by a ruthless brute who rapidly develop into a raving megalomamac and whose subordinates lack either the courage or moral strength to overthrow him--is precisely what makes this film so horrifying...
...intense political maneuvering among the Indians, and the factions within the tribe, do support some whites' doubts that the Indians are the unassimilated and united body they claim to be, Although the fight to regain the Indian land is in part a moral stand, both whites and Indians have other more selfish interests at stake...