Word: moralization
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clear that the pro-life movement is here to stay," said Law, head of the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston. "There is no way in which the human spirit will long endure a moral evil like abortion. Those of us who recognize abortion as the taking of innocent human life do not find that with the passage of time and millions of more deaths we are less committed. Far from it. I find myself today more convinced than ever that the killing must stop...
...early '80s, Steve Martin said, "I believe that Ronald Reagan will make this country what it once was: a polar region covered with ice." While the legacy of Ronald Reagan isn't quite that dramatic, he has been responsible for an increased coolness in America's political and moral climate...
...that "everything he had been involved with had been successful, and he would be damned if the U.S.F.L. was going to be his first failure." Trump's league sued the N.F.L. for $1.7 billion, won the verdict but received only a symbolic $3 in damages. Trump called that a moral victory even as the "victorious" league disintegrated...
...dandy too diligently; on his brow you can almost see the fop sweat. Then gradually he learns to trust the intimacy of Frears' close-up camera style. The lizard eyes crease with desire; tiny curlicues of smirk rise from the corners of his mouth; the wispy voice locates the moral malaise at the heart of Valmont's debauchery. He embodies the cynical wisdom of this excellent film: life is one big performance art, and sex is a little death...
Some serve out of a sense of moral mission, much like that which inspired Dr. Albert Schweitzer to go to Africa in 1913 to open a hospital at the village of Lambarene in what is now Gabon. Others seek adventure, challenge, an opportunity to hone their skills in a real-life laboratory where nearly every case is an emergency. Many discover that much of what they learned in medical school is irrelevant to the life-and-death crises and health needs of the world's poor, and go on to make a career of volunteer medicine...