Word: moralisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jonestown story, like some Joseph Conrad drama of fanaticism and moral emptiness, has gone directly into popular myth. It will be remembered as an emblematic, identifying moment of the decade: a demented American psychopomp in a tropical cult house, doling out cyanide with Kool-Aid. Jonestown is the Altamont of the '70s cult movement. Just as Altamont began the destruction of the sweet, vacuous aspirations of Woodstock, Jonestown has decisively contaminated the various vagabond zealotries that have grown up, nourished and sometimes turned sinister...
...consistently strayed away from its chartered role as a law-enforcement organization during those years, assuming a self-appointed role as political and moral troubleshooters. Rather than restricting their efforts to the control of criminals and violent hate groups, the FBI chose to harass and even to "destroy" any political organizations which then-director J. Edgar Hoover considered "detrimental to this country...
These discoveries--revealed 12 years after the fact--have led to nothing but condemnation, disgust, and the moral indignation of politicians--sentiments never expressed 12 years ago because they were impolitic...
...come to visit? (If the child insists on sharing a room with his partner the parents have every right, says Tish, to say: "Look, this is our house. You can both go to the hotel near by and pay for your own room if you refuse to accept the moral code of this house.") Generally Baldrige gives unmarried couples living together sympathetic though somewhat chilly treatment: "If they are breaking a moral law, it is their business and no one else's ... It has become ... a way of life. We must therefore cope with it as such." Baldrige hardheadedly notes...
...restaurant when it's his or her turn. A man or a woman stands up in the office to greet a male or a female visitor." Tish gears her book to an intuition that manners are practical and even liberating. They have long since been disjoined from moral...