Word: moralisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Mendota Mental Health Institute. The ground rules she established put her in what she called a "triangular" position with both sides. But in fact she was closer to the patients, pledging to guard their confidences while sitting in on staff sessions. Almost immediately, even trivial questions became moral quagmires. Should she tell patients that she had gone to a staff party? (She didn't.) Should she let the doctors know when she had information they did not have? (Only when she suspected one patient was planning to kill himself.) Still worse, she found herself confronted by a crazy-house...
...bowls, with a fragment of landscape seen through an open window behind, the two worlds - exterior and interior - compressed into a single overlapping image. Nothing is gratuitous, nothing fudged. The sharp pencil line - Blake's "hard and wirey line of rectitude" - engraves the surface with a kind of moral certainty. A work like June 4-52 (tableform), with the vestige of a dark, undulating horizon line assimilated into the play of the still life, is in its way a glimpse of paradise, a state where the conflicts of na ture and culture are resolved in har mony. The ambition...
Hesse knew that he was "by no stretch of the imagination a storyteller." The fragmented 20th century, he thought, had destroyed the common cultural ground a writer needs to share with his audience. So he fabricated a sweeping drama of self-regard, of fictive autobiography and moral essay. Often, as in Siddhartha, he wrote in the mock profundities of fable enveloped in the incense of the East. The effects could be silly: " 'Govinda,' said Siddhartha to his friend, 'Govinda, come with me to the banyan tree. We will practice meditation.' " Hesse hung his earlier stories with...
...possible to ignore the moral issues that West himself raises and then drops, Proteus can be clear sailing. Connoisseurs of page-turners will feel right at home in a world where a woman can still be described as a "leggy redhead," where grins are "crooked," where a Jewish character says "oy vay" and a Scotsman says...
...succeeded. In December 1976 the state supreme court decided that Michelle did indeed have the right to sue. Noting "radically" changed social mores "in regard to cohabitation," it ruled that the law should not "impose a standard based on alleged moral considerations that have apparently been so widely abandoned by so many." As long as sex was not the basis of the agreement, said the court, unmarried couples could expressly agree to share their property or even imply such an agreement by their conduct toward each other...