Word: moralizations
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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English class, "The Art of Eating Spaghetti." He barely remembers it and no copy has survived. Young Baker heard family stories of his mother's cousin, Edwin James, who was managing editor of the New York Times from 1932 to 1951, and understood the moral: words were a way out. He won a competitive scholarship to Johns Hopkins in 1942 and ambled through his first year with nonchalance...
...academy has two other working members.* One is the San Francisco Chronicle's Art Hoppe, 54, who tucks away moral lessons in his whimsical scenes, events and characters-like the Harvard-educated gorilla who chucks his campaign for the presidency to run for Johnny Carson's job, and the Ratt of Phynkia, who declares peace on the neighboring Republic of Mbonga to win U.S. foreign aid, then calls it off when he learns he would have to take the aid in weapons. "Writing a column beats honest work," says Hoppe. "It leaves the mornings free for other projects...
King Priam (1961) borrowed from the Iliad to examine moral choices in a time of war. The Knot Garden (1970) sorted out a maze of sexual and psychological bonds against a backdrop of freedom fighting, racism and analysis...
True, Jimmy Carter has delivered a number of soliloquies on the "moral equivalent of war," but the attributes of war remain absent. The problem seems abstract to Americans, except when gas prices rise and stations close...
Americans displayed many similar signs of indifference and disunity on the eve of World War II. Pearl Harbor galvanized the nation at last into comparative unity and necessary action. In fact, World War II may have been the last epoch when Americans acted in moral harmony with one an other. An overriding common necessity imposed sacrifices - rationing at home, service and possible death abroad - upon a people more or less unified in their perception of the evil to be conquered...