Word: moralisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...large number of Brown's 5000 students--the Vise estimate of non-participation in its pro-strike efforts runs as high as 4000--wish to seek moral cues during the dispute from a source other than the activists, the Brown Daily Herald offers a more middle-of-the-road perspective. The Herald has scrupulously avoided lining up behind either party--the workers or the administration--in the dispute. The strongest editorial on the subject to date has been one calling for binding arbitration in the dispute, a demand which went unheeded by the administration. The editorial that followed the arrests...
Rita Warnock, a library worker, says student support "has helped a lot. It has catalyzed university movement on the issues on several occasions, and it is a real moral boost...
Watergate. Carter is probably holding U.S. foreign policy to an impossibly high standard, one that he would have trouble meeting in a world in which power is still the main arbiter between nations. Ford defended the morality of his policies, citing U.S. efforts to feed the hungry, end the Middle East crisis, and make peace in southern Africa. Said he: "What is more moral than peace? And the U.S. is at peace today...
...Right to Life movement and author of a proposed constitutional amendment that would severely restrict abortion. Moynihan is against any such amendment, arguing that it would be "coercion" of one group by another. "We are in a post-Constantinian church," he says. "We really cannot expect our moral code to be translated into the legal code...
...workers and Federal Government employees who shared their V A monthly education benefits ($216 to $398) with the school but never went to class or snipped a hair. Worries Skinner: "With the potential for fraud so easy, the 'get mine' attitude can spread. It can destroy the moral fiber of a community...