Word: moralisms
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...indentured at saber point to fight in the woods, streams and back alleys--guerrilla warriors against the imperial power. Atrocities abound on both sides. There are no flaming heroics, no real winners: the visitors just get worn out before the home team does. The Americans are given a slight moral edge because the land is theirs. Well, it really belonged to the Indians, but that's another imperialist horror story...
...television viewers know, crime in Miami revolves around the cocaine trade. But the policemen who are supposed to put dopers behind bars are not often like TV's cool, sockless heroes with stern moral codes. Christmas week brought more grim tidings of internal vice in the Miami police department. First, the city's tough-talking, Stetson-wearing police chief, Clarence Dickson, announced that two former officers had been charged with stealing 150 lbs. of cocaine. Less than 24 hours later, four additional Miami policemen were arrested in connection with an ugly coke deal that led to three deaths last summer...
...Waterston disappoints a bit, wobbling in his accent and never quite finding the passion, only the hysteria, of his man. Jones' smirky hauteur is chilling as his destructive tactics succeed. Both the architect and his nemesis contend that nothing ever changes, and Frayn finds lyric beauty and an odd moral equality in the one's dream, the other's nihilism. --By William A. Henry...
Even its adversaries would have to admit that in the six years since its founding, Moral Majority has become a household name Then why was the Rev. Jerry Falwell, creator of the New Right lobby, announcing last week in Washington that while Moral Majority was not exactly going out of business, it would henceforth be subsumed by a new citizens' action group, called the Liberty Federation...
Falwell contended that the reorganization was made necessary by the press, which has "bloodied and beaten the name Moral Majority." He also acknowledged that he wanted to be able to speak out not only on such matters as school prayer and pornography but also on budget deficits, the need for a strong defense and other issues that many Americans regard as political rather than moral. When Falwell has taken positions on such questions in the past, he has been criticized for appearing to frame them in religious terms. Noting that contributions toward Moral Majority's $7 million annual budget have...