Word: moralisms
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...point he hands his favorite piece of Russian literature to his romantic interest and explains that the author later went insane and committed suicide. While the rest of the principle characters act with egocentric ingratitude for what they have, Joel stands firm as the unlikely moral bedrock of the story.In the film’s attempt to bridge adult drama with juvenile comedy, its one unequivocal success is the versatile soundtrack. The movie implies a setting in the 80s with a single shot of Reagan on a television screen, but period choice seems merely an arbitrary excuse to pepper...
...fantastical elements, but also its ability to question the human experience. Zombie movies, he says, confront the natural propensity to empathize with human-like figures. “They address the big existential questions: what makes one human? Not human?” he explains. Schlozman also notes the moral lessons implicit in these movies. They warn of radiation risk and the dangers of conducting experimental tests on diseases; they offer a satirical commentary on governments that stand idly by in the midst of an apocalypse; they blatantly attack the emergence of materialistic tendencies even under dire circumstances.While Scholzman seeks...
...good line, but unsupported by anything resembling a strategy to combat the disease. When we asked about the role of his intelligence service in feeding the cancer, he responded, "The germ was created by the CIA." True enough, but somewhat dated. "Your government called them the 'moral equivalent of George Washington,' " he said, referring to the mujahedin who defeated the Soviets. True again - and U.S. complicity in the creation of al-Qaeda shouldn't be forgotten - but the game changed after the Russians were kicked out of Afghanistan and the terrorists focused their attention on both the U.S. and Pakistan...
...expected to win a fourth consecutive term in South Africa's parliamentary and presidential elections on April 22. But for the first time since it came to power with the end of apartheid in 1994, that result is not guaranteed, and by any measure - popularity, membership, moral authority - the party is in decline. Its leaders are embroiled in a series of scandals involving both corruption and ineptitude. As a government, it has failed to stem raging violent crime and the world's largest HIV/AIDS epidemic. It has presided over an economic boom that has made millionaires of a well-connected...
...Struggle The decline of the ANC is all the more dramatic considering the moral heights it once occupied. In the years it was fighting apartheid, its mission was clear and its righteousness unassailable. ANC members were freedom fighters repressed by a regime whose racism recalled the worst of European imperialism. Mandela, locked up for 27 years only to emerge with forgiveness for his oppressors, was a secular saint. There was no equivocation here. With the ANC and Mandela on one side and apartheid on the other, South Africa was literally a question of black and white...