Word: moralist
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...attitude in life is that it's a very imperfect world, and I don't see that it's Harvard's role to be overly moralist," Cabot says, adding that the more Harvard is confined in terms of what companies it can invest in, the lower he feels return on endowment will be--and the less money for scholarships, faculty salaries, and construction there will...
...wrong began to blur for Dostoevsky himself, and that he came to admire criminals for their 'strength' (as Stendhal had done earlier and Nietzsche was to do later)." Frank's narrative and evidence prove that Dostoevsky's long exile made him a fierce patriot and moralist, insistent that individual acts incur inescapable responsibility. It is only selected Western eyes that have seen the experimenting murderer Raskolnikov as the hero of a novel simply called Crime...
...moralist explanation for Stratten's violent end at the hands of her small-time promoter husband would probably go like this: "Women who do naughty things such as posing in the nude are simply asking for trouble...
...Jean-Claude Carrière) is thus in part the testament of an old man passing ironic judgment on a century that finally learned to accommodate him. If the book offers any shocks, they are of the boomerang variety: the iconoclast at twilight is in danger of becoming a moralist. He condemns "the proliferation of gutter words" in modern literature; he criticizes the excesses of his anarchist comrades in the Spanish Civil War; he expresses relief in the waning of his sexual desire ("It's as if I've finally been relieved of a tyrannical burden"). It would...
...catastrophe. It all read like a strange new genre: a nonfiction science fiction for an age of "value-neutral" technocrats. Predictably, traditional humanists who felt their influence slipping considered Kahn's intellectual game playing to be an amoral acceptance of mass annihilation. Kahn is, in fact, a conservative moralist. He is also a systems evangelist who puts his faith in the power of reason and works hard to appear more holistic than thou. The result is a fast-talking, all-inclusive style that announces to laymen and rival alike: "My big picture is bigger than your big picture...