Word: moralisms
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...they complain that the electorate is too uninformed or uninterested or just plain mean. In both cases they act like it’s us versus them, like some mysterious body (the government or the corporations or the idiot voters) has all the power and we, with all our moral righteousness, just can’t get through...
DIED. Heinrich Böll, 67, Nobel-prize-winning (1972) West German author whose gentle but relentless attacks on tyranny of all kinds informed the short stories, essays and 18 novels that brought him acclaim and popularity in the East bloc as well as the West and provided unfailing moral guideposts for his countrymen; of complications of arteriosclerosis; in Hürtgenwald, West Germany. Brought up in a deeply religious Roman Catholic family resistant to Nazism, he served six years as a Wehrmacht conscript on both fronts. He emerged as a pacifist and foe of all establishments, governmental, religious and bureaucratic...
Then the Big Red finally got a moral victory—first baseman Conor Kelly flied out weakly to left to become the first Cornell hitter to get the ball past the infield clay...
...moral of the story? The coach is right...
Second, we celebrate the precedents set. Harvard University, as much as it would like to deny it, has sent a clear message that it recognizes the moral consequences of its institutional decisions. We, as students, have recognized that same principle, as well as our own responsibility to affect those decisions...