Word: moralisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...administrators fail to heed CHUL, once again paternalism will win over democracy, and complacency will win over moral action...
Straight it was. When he announced his first energy policy, way back in 1977, Jimmy Carter summoned the nation to a "moral equivalent of war," which was to be fought through a highly complex program of tax incentives and other gimmicks, and focused on conservation as the key to solving the nation's twin problems of declining oil production and rising dependence on price-gouging foreign suppliers. The new plan that he outlined in his plainspoken, 23-minute Oval Office address last week was far simpler-and much more likely to be effective. Henceforth, old-fashioned marketplace economics...
...happened was sculpture. It was perhaps the last time that a sculptor could imagine, in good faith, that he was history's megaphone. The social power of art was still unquestioned, and to change the language of sculpture was, at least potentially, an act of real cultural and moral significance. In those 40 years, the language of sculpture underwent the most searching revision it had had, perhaps in its whole history, and certainly since the time of Bernini and his followers in the 17th century. It moved, to put it roughly, from the lump to the web: from closed...
...that in their crisscross of small rectangular shapes and larger blocks resemble models for imaginary buildings or cities. They were, in a very rarefied sense, social blueprints, though quite unworkable ones. Perhaps Russia was the only country in which artists could seriously imagine that abstract art might attain the moral compulsion of a holy picture. Chashnik's Large Suprematist Relief (1920-26), finished a few years before he died at 27, lays no stress on its materials; it is a pure proposition of the kind of half religious ideal that was soon to be censored out of Russian...
...nation's colleges are finding special programs for minorities increasingly difficult to maintain. Not only are the costs and the legality of many minority-helping programs receiving new scrutiny, but there is a new uncertainty over their educational justification. Where once it seemed a school's moral duty to admit disadvantaged applicants, now the failure to discriminate between qualified and unqualified members of minority groups is widely denounced as harmful to the students, as well as to education generally. Where once it seemed crucial for previously all-white universities to bolster blacks' sense of their own racial...