Word: moralisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about our "moral" obligation to Israel, because our economic interests lie with the Arab world...
Whatever the ultimate shape of the package, the President and his advisers were having trouble right up to week's end just deciding how to present it. Carter's initial idea was to give a television address along the lines of the "moral equivalent of war" speech he made two years ago this month. But all that most Americans now remember of that occasion is that he called the nation to the energy barricades, then shrank from leading the fight. This time aides were urging him to choose a more subdued format. No matter where he speaks, Carter...
After seeing some shows, one is tempted to say, "I gave at the office." Moral solicitation for worthy causes is an old and honorable U.S. custom. So is a distaste for indignity and injustice. But, barring isolated instances, the theater does not lend itself comfortably to social polemics and underdog rhetoric. What too often happens, and Zoot Suit is a case in point, is the reduction of the stage to a soapbox and the meaningless ritual of preaching to the already converted...
...just another challenge: he wanted to find out "whether I really was too weak to hold my own in the rough and tumble." Elected to the state assembly, he joined the good-government movement and started assailing the "bosses." He had what Morris describes as a "genius for moral warfare." The ebullient personality - "the bride at every wedding, and the corpse at every funeral" - overwhelmed people; it took them years to get over a fleeting encounter with him. Men of colder blood "grew dependent as lizards upon his warmth...
King fought these injustices as a moral obligation, Higginbotham said, adding that this obligation went above his respect for the legal process to appeal to higher laws of humanity...