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...barrier to nonmarital sex. Milhaven himself believes that, instead of laying down dogmatic rules, the church should use the behavioral sciences, particularly psychology, as a guide in counseling individuals with sexual conflicts. Generally, he finds far more reason to condemn adultery than premarital sex. A more cautious new moralist, Catholic University's Charles Curran, concedes that sex outside marriage might be justified, but only in "quite limited" cases...
...wide. Proustians are forever arguing among themselves. In this short volume the Master is variously defined as a chronicler of society whose work was "a summing up of the nineteenth century" and, on the contrary, a "visionary artist" whose genius was to transcend time. He is described as a moralist who "judges" and "condemns" and a "visual writer" who sees. He is compared with French Impressionist paintings and Wagnerian opera...
There was a much better fiscal balance to Wild's career over the next 13 years, and only a moralist could say whether he was more burdensome to the nation in jail or out. Wild perfected England's first coherent system for detecting and arresting criminals. Yet his success at organizing crime detection was due to the fact that he took great care to organize the crime in the first place. He not only became the "Thief-Taker General of Great Britain and Ireland," as he took to calling himself; he was also the realm's principal...
...that episode indicates, Gesell, 60, may be something of a moralist, but he also has a tough, coldly pragmatic view of the law and the realities of its enforcement. His judicial reputation, however, is built on stronger legal stuff than simple allegiance to law-and-order. Gesell is, in fact, a judicial activist whose innovative opinions have upset antiquated laws, blasted unresponsive city governments and, most recently, challenged the prerogatives of 117 members of the U.S. Congress. Since he became a judge in 1968, Gesell...
Though she disguises it with worldliness, Françoise Sagan is something of a moralist. In her deft little romances, one is aware of the ethical reading as well as the emotional. Like temperature and humidity, they are complementary indications of the atmosphere...