Word: moralisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...precisely those elements of Chinese society that, like Teng, were the chief victims of the Cultural Revolution. Besides his constituency, Teng has extraordinary energy and executive skills. As a party member for more than 50 years and a veteran of Mao's original Long March, he also possesses a moral authority that no other Chinese leader can command, an authority based partly on his refusal to bow before the political winds of the past...
...more than 1.8 million whites in the three Dutch Reformed churches that dominate in South Africa, this year's Sabbath marked the end of an especially perplexing year. The churches continue to provide the moral underpinning for the nation's policy of racial separation, a role that has left them increasingly isolated from the mainstream of Christianity, not only abroad but at home...
...favor of one even more daring: unification of the four churches. The white church, at its quadrennial synod a few weeks later, flatly rejected any accommodation to its nonwhite Reformed Christians. (The obvious fear: the church might gradually integrate at regional and local levels, and also lay the moral grounds for giving blacks a say in secular government.) The delegates also rejected a suggestion that they rename the nonwhite factions "sister" rather than "daughter" churches. The synod elected as the church's new moderator E.P.J. Kleynhans, who believes that church integration is an "indefensible policy" and takes pride that...
...they were not the '60s. To an exhausted, convalescent society this was a relief but also disconcerting. It was not easy, even with Jerry Ford in the White House, to begin watching for pratfalls instead of apocalypses. Still, by the time Jimmy Carter tried to whip up a moral crusade for energy conservation, much of the country seemed to have perfected the knack of shrugging off the alarms of crisis. It was easy to read that mood as indifference, but it is more reasonable to suppose the country just needed a rest...
More: Society had slumped into a posture of cynical disbelief; no, the search for spiritual illumination was epidemic and had grown so fervent (so Columnist Harriet Van Home claimed last week) that it was endangering the state-church separation. The moral permissiveness achieved in the '60s was ripening into generalized decadence; no, not only was fidelity growing fashionable once again, but television was even cutting back on sex and violence for fear of losing the mass audience...