Word: morality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Israel's plight, they argue, reflects an inability to comprehend the Jewish sense of peoplehood and the primordial place that the vision of Israel as the homeland for God's people occupies in the Jewish mind. Instead of concentrating on how the two faiths can jointly combat moral evils in the world, dialogue might better be served by greater stress on the fundamentals of Jewish belief...
...existing order as an historically necessary and unalterable development. Experience is divided into a number of disconnected special areas--law, economics, international relations--and each area is governed by a set of "rules." Man becomes the object of the historical process; the best he can do is formulate moral rules to guide his conduct in the presence of ineluctable forces...
Although proud of their country's democratic approach to higher learning, many Japanese scholars lament the loss of the universities' prewar intimacy, when there was close student-professor contact, more emphasis on moral guidance than career-oriented degree-granting. Schools today, complains Tokyo University President Kazuo Okochi, are "producing a lot of young graduates who do not have enough self-consciousness or sense of human values." Like the U.S., Japan has discovered that overcrowding and impersonality are part of the price a nation has to pay for mass higher education...
Sexuality is a specific area of moral concern in which psychiatry has helped religion redefine its concept of sin. In the past, Christian moralists almost unanimously regarded fornication as an unqualified evil. Now, some churchmen are inclined to admit that it may be morally permissible, in those rare situations when it satisfies a true need between two adults who fulfill each other. Says Dr. Edward Craig Hobbs of the Episcopal Church Divinity School of the Pacific: "The whole matter of sexual morality is now subject to a different understanding that comes from psychiatry and ultimately from Freud." The Rev. Richard...
...agreed was one of the best speeches he has ever made, Castro returned to the problem of the PCV as he closed the OLAS conference Aug. 10. Alternately pleading with his audience through a pity-me-hurt-little-boy argument, then pouring out a withering sarcasm and finally fulminating moral indignation, Fidel delivered a devastating attack on the Venezuelans. By some amazing feat of logic, he linked them to what he called the "International Mafia," which includes the full battery of demons--the American press, the CIA, the Israelis, and other assorted ghouls...