Word: moralizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...panelists also discussed the changing roles for men and women as modern marriage accomodates to new societal pressures and moral standards...
...Gornick believes that these people became Communists simply because they "cared more." They cared about the people in the mills and the mines, about the migrant workers, about the immigrants who sought a bright new life and found only a dank tenement. But instead of stressing the moral or political outrage that fed their "caring," she harps on their emotional needs. Human beings, she tells us in a remarkable burst of insight, need to find meaning in life. Moreover, she reveals, people need to overcome feelings of isolation. The Party was an elixir for those seekers of passion and politics...
...Party whose awesome structure harnessed that inchoate emotion which, with the force of a tidal wave, drove millions of people around the globe toward Marxism. It was the Party whose moral authority gave shape and substance to an abstraction, thereby making of it a powerful human experience. It was the Party that brought to astonishing life the deepest sense of their own humanness, allowing them to love themselves through the act of loving each other...
...well, given all the harm Greene has seen done in the name of ideological purity around the globe. Still, just as in his other novels it takes the Church to shake his heroes out of their boozy battles with doubt and despair, here it takes someone else making a moral claim on Castle to spur him to act. When he finally defects to save his neck, and settles down as an honorary Soviet citizen, he does so only out of a reluctant sense of personal loyalty. There may be personal heroism involved here, but it is all done grudgingly...
...refuses to believe in either side, and just retains faith in his private sense of honor. As in the eventually tiresome discussions between Castle and Sarah, the outside world is all black and white, and neither color is believable. Castle can only have personal conflicts; in this world other moral dilemmas never become so knotty as to warrant thoughts of suicide, say, or perhaps genuine political outrage. Both extremes always strike Greene as a waste, and a kind of moral inertia sets in. It's not that life is all that valuable. It's just that neither trying to combat...