Word: moralisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever the moral issues involved, the splits in the department seem to have played a large role in the decision of David S. Landes, Goelet Professor of French History and a noted scholar of European economic history, to switch into the Economics Department this July...
...journalism and academia became his conduits for change. With the publication of The Rape Of Our Neighborhoods, perhaps America will start responding to Worthy's prose. If they do they might discover the truth in the words of Kenneth B. Clark: "The Bill Worthys of our society provide the moral fuel necessary to prevent the flickering conscience of our society from going...
Throughout this country, more often than not unknown to one another, small, heterogenous bands of people, moral guerrillas, are resisting mighty institutions that, in the name of healing, or expanded space to worship God, or higher education, or more rapid transit routes, or just more and more hamburgers, would rape their communities...
...There's not choice but to be trained in the arts of community survival," he writes. If people begin on the street where they live to convert moral resistance into concrete legal and political activity, they also prepare themselves to recognize and hopefully thwart the Vietnams when they begin...
...counter-example, Cousteau mentioned that Algeria's socialist government is accepting the short-term expense of sound ecological management in view of its long-term economic, moral, and aesthetic benefits...