Word: moralization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adams the dynamo became a symbol of infinity. As he grew accustomed to the great gallery of machines, he began to feel the forty-foot dynamos as a moral force, much as the early Christians felt the Cross.... Before the end, one began to pray to it; inherited instinct taught the natural expression of man before silent and infinite force. Among the thousand symbols of ultimate energy, the dynamo was not so human as some, but it was the most expressive...
When asked to comment on the most important factor in achieving world peace, Kissinger replied that "the free world is suffering from a lack of moral dynamism." This lack is clearly shown, he indicated, "in the platitudes that Mr. Dulles is fond of using...
...rights and the threat of Communism to mask with more high-toned prejudices their own ambitious use of popular bigotry, some Southerners do not consider these issues entirely rhetorical. They fear big government and the status revolution which accompanies its growth. They sense a creeping commonality which threatens customary moral standards and seems to derogate the supreme values of privacy and personal autonomy...
...prove a rallying point for the fearful idealists, turning their battle for a public iniquity in the name of private rights into a consistent defense of a traditionally private area of discretion and control. For any attempt to legislate or adjudicate the composition of genuine private schools, as the moral sense of the rest of the nation would require, would set a new precedent in the extension of public power and diminution of personal autonomy...
...Massachusetts law, or lack of it, rooming-house owners may be as biased as they like. But the University, since it is a private list, might exert some moral pressure by refusing to include those who will rent only to whites...