Word: moralisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strange--in the opposition to a man both the U.S. government and press has tried to maintain. American press coverage throughout the current crisis has reflected western cultural biases, and a belief that the United States could and should mold the political affairs of another nation--the most persistent moral and pragmatic error in U.S. foreign policy development...
...that had raised opposition hopes that the U.S. would pressure the Shah) and the administration's continued sale of weapons to the Iranian armed forces. When U.S. attempts to restrain the opposition's goals redoubled the anti-Americanism felt by the crowds of demonstrators, their hatred was that of moral outrage that the U.S. dared to think it had the right (though it clearly lacked the means) to intervene. Once the demonstrations reached full force, the single greatest force of anti-U.S. feeling was that feeling of moral betrayal by a nation with democratic tradition and an avowed concern...
...until we recognize the right of independent people to determine their own governments, we must continue to pay the moral and geopolitical price of repeated United States foreign policy disasters...
...OPEC countries are free to adjust their prices if they want to, and they could well increase them so that not only will spot prices go up, but official prices as well, at least temporarily." It seems that the energy crisis is turning out to be less the moral equivalent of war-as Carter has called it-than the equivalent of Chinese water torture...
...film's source material, Crichton's own bestselling novel, had far more zip. Crichton conceived the book as a socially conscious thriller: he not only told the story of the robbery but also drew a savage, well-researched portrait of the economic inequities and moral hypocrisy of the mid-Victorian era. Unfortunately, he has not found a way to translate his Dickensian themes to film. Though his movie contains vivid re-creations (shot in Ireland) of London's stately mansions and grisly slums, Crichton photographs them as if he were a sightseer. His usual acerbic point...