Word: morality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sadism or criminality. Worse, the newscaster's carefully modulated vocal intonation of emotional neutrality carries a powerful subliminal, nonverbal "message" to impressionable minds about society's indifference to aggression and human suffering. This is an insidious attack on society's age-old weapon of restraint: collective moral indignation. The so-called "truth" is very difficult to communicate accurately. It must only be broadcast after careful evaluation in the light of total communications impact, and with full awareness of the "other and distorted messages" conveyed by carelessness or sensationalism regarding timing, balance, intonation, emphasis, association, attitude and implications...
...problem is not Barnard's, or that of any college. It was produced-and must be accepted by-the adult community. What I rebellious students overlook is the immutable equation that if one would contest the paternalistic supervision of the college, he must accept the legalistic restrictions and moral consequences of society. Even if Linda makes the minor point that some of the residential requirements of the college may trespass upon what she claims as her individual rights, has she proved the proposition implicit in her impertinence: that she may cohabit anywhere with a male not her spouse? Surely...
...film develops, the workers succumb not through ideological but moral weakness: slogans aside, they hold bourgeois values. At the outset Carlos, cigarette dangling from his proletarian lip, tells his working class lover, "Someday I'll make it big...I want the cake, not just the crumbs." Twenty minutes later we see them both bedfellows of their bourgeois employers...
...demands followed an academic strike by 200 students on April 26. The strike, sponsored by Ethos and Wellesley Against Racism (WAR), called for almost identical reforms. Miss Kristine Olson, a junior and coordinator of WAR, said the administration evaded the demands at that time, offering moral support but stating that the requests would be too difficult to implement...
Ralph McGill and Senator Fulbright are faithful representatives of the South: the two men, as well as the region, suffer some kind of moral schizophrenia, though in the case of the publisher and the Senator, they represent this malady in opposite directions. They reflect the most unenviable aspects of the heritage of the political culture of the South. Jingoism and racism. Each man has been able to overcome one of these burdens in his public life, but not both...