Word: morality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...critics, but it also whetted their desire for power. Police Boss Mieczyslaw Moczar, the man behind much of the anti-Gomulka dissidence but normally a shadowy figure, appeared three times in the past two weeks on Polish television, then held an even rarer press interview to attack the moral support given to student rioters in the weekly newspaper Polityka-a publication closely identified with Gomulka...
...distinction of being the only carnivores with no innate inhibitions against attacking members of their own species. Early man was too weak to do so. But as he developed weapons, he learned to cherish the "warrior virtues" of truculent masculinity and pleasure in dominating others. Though he also developed moral restraints against killing, these are not natural and tend to collapse under stress. Seeking a really nonviolent community, anthropologists point with hope to the peace-loving pygmies of the Ituri rain forest in the Congo. Unlike other men, those "primitives" have no male-warrior hangup; they retreat from power-seeking...
...moral sense, violence is not power but an act of despair, an admission of failure to find any other way to gain a goal. By definition, every society is committed to nonviolence; the violent are suicidal, for society must repress acts against law and order. Yet realistically, one cannot gloss over the fact that violence often pays off. In the violent subculture of a juvenile gang, the nonviolent are considered cowards, and violence produces not guilt but status...
...polemic called The Church and the Second Sex, (Harper & Row; $4.95). Unmarried, and the only female theology professor at Jesuit-run Boston College, she has three doctorates in religion and philosophy and is an avowed suffragette for female rights within the church. Her book accuses Christianity of contradicting its moral teachings by harboring "oppressive, misogynistic ideas" about women. The roots of such prejudice, contends Dr. Daly, lie in the Old Testament. Eve in Genesis is pictured as created from Adam's rib and as responsible for his fall from grace and innocence; the effect is to cast woman...
...problem of succession to Franco dominates all problems in Spain--political, economic and moral," he told an audience of over one hundred Faculty members and students. Redrejo spoke in Spanish...