Word: moralisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...April 16], then when is he going to declare a real war on the problem-proclaiming a state of emergency and totally mobilizing all our energy resources? Is handing over billions of dollars in windfall profits to the petroleum industry his idea (and that of Congress) of a "moral equivalent...
...government seemed ready to talk to the Patriotic Front, then the Administration should recognize it and try to lift the economic sanctions. President Carter has said that by the time the new government is installed, he will make a decision on recognition that will be based on "a moral dimension and not legislative politics...
...earlier times, the question posed by this play's title would never have arisen. Life was God's, to give and to take. But medical technology's present ability to sustain inert human remnants poses a fresh moral dilemma. Between medical authority and an individual's right to decide his own fate, who plays...
...friends and followers were convinced he would one day make. It is also a rare summarizing statement, at once assured and vulnerable, in which an artist casts a selective eye over the fantastical life of his times and shapes his observations into an unsparing, compassionate, always witty and radically moral narrative. Tightly constructed, clearly focused intellectually, it is a prismatic portrait of a time and place that may be studied decades hence to see what kind of people we were...
PRESIDENT CARTER has no sweeping, coherent vision of a national energy policy that could inspire public support. Instead, he has fixated on decontrol of oil prices -- the quick fix of market forces, instead of the tougher job of building national policy. If indeed the energy crisis is "the moral equivalent of war," Carter should not leave the shooting up to the oil companies...