Word: moralisms
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...audiences who like their history juicy, relatable and full of comforting moral certainties--which is to say pretty much everybody without a Ph.D.--there may be no better subject than young Henry. He was a rock star in a glittering, perilous age, an intellectually curious, athletic charmer who became a uxoricidal, paranoid turkey-leg chomper, pursuing a male heir through six wives. It's a wonder it took the entertainment industry so long to fully exploit him--and the other Tudors too--since the period was one of the most scandal plagued in British history. The Diana-Charles divorce...
Today we cling to the Tudors, Gregory believes, because their moral questions have more obvious answers than ours. "When Henry decides to behead a young woman [his fifth wife, Catherine Howard], it's so obviously a bad thing to do that it's satisfying to the reader," Gregory says. "To judge it gives us comfort and certainty in an uncertain world." Sort of like reading a tabloid. A war may rage on, the stock market may tumble, but things are still O.K. if some sexy young star is behaving more badly than...
...According to Robert E. Bolcome III, a student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Medical School, Freemasons are the single largest source of blood donations in Massachusetts. “At least in my case I’ve been able to find a higher moral standard as a member of the lodge,” says Bolcome. “Our generation hasn’t had to withstand any tough times. We don’t know what hunger really is, what it means to go through the Depression or be drafted. There?...
...Such exposure breeds a community of tolerance and understanding—a lesson fundamental to the educational mission of any school. While we understand the Utah legislature’s desire to give schools the authority to “make decisions to protect the physical, emotional, psychological, or moral well being of students,” this heavy-handed regulation stifles the very educational benefits that student groups serve to provide—and it ostensibly does so in the interest of protecting a “moral being” whose definition is strongly influenced by a tradition...
...more often than not, and despite efforts to improve the situation such as mandatory English language training and a TF review process, the Moral Reasoning TF stutters and stammers to explain “the hedonism,” or the Quantitative Reasoning TF is “too tired” to go over the subject material again even after a diligent student points out her mistakes. Even worse are the martinetish schoolmarms who harp on punctuality—and mark down for tardiness—but spend the rest of the hour sitting with a hand to their...