Word: moralisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kissinger has never understood that to dichotomize values in a tough world inevitably means making the moral subject to the practical, not the other way around. The Kissinger course will provide more peace and wealth-but leave us wondering, somewhere along the line, just what the hell...
Carter's own ethical sense and the character of his appointees will be more important than any rules. The restrictions may also discourage some able people from joining the new Administration. On balance, however, the code sets a stern moral tone that the public clearly wants...
When he does, Carter probably will discover that even a "trust me" President probably cannot successfully reconcile the views of those who believe that anyone who failed to serve when called committed a treasonable act with those who feel that draft evasion was a lonely decision of a high moral order. Even the general outline of his plan, which he sketched during the campaign, was criticized as "too little and too late" by some of the exiled Americans who might be affected, and denounced as too lenient by various veterans' groups...
...wedding on horseback, carrying jewels in a casket; in Crete, the dowry often follows her on a mule train. In Athens, a monthly newspaper called Arranged Marriage provides a kind of form chart of the financial attractions available in the marketplace of love. (Sample entry: "Woman, 38, with moral principles, dowry of 200,000 drachmas cash and 300 olive trees, wants someone of 45-50 years...
...consider Sigmund Freud one of history's leading male chauvinist pigs. No wonder. The master taught that women are far more masochistic and narcissistic than men and more prone to neurosis, that they are rigid and unchangeable by the age of 30, and unable to equal the high moral character of men. These doleful views flow from a single Freudian concept: penis envy. As Freud saw it, female identity grows from an infant girl's shocking discovery that she lacks a penis. Later, in about the third year of life, she carries this sense of castration and inferiority...