Word: moralizations
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...reports on the rapid recovery of the President from abdominal surgery would have us believe that the luck of the Irish still holds. But his health is not explainable just in terms of luck. We should consider ourselves fortunate indeed to have a man of old-fashioned virtues and moral strength leading our nation. J. Robert Hall Veronia...
...seductive rooftop serenade to a dry Stravinskian neoclassicism that accompanies the cat's pompous posturings. The delightful storybook production by Charles Ludlam, founder of New York's Ridiculous Theatrical Company, turns the opera into a tragicomedy in the vein of a 19th century melodrama, but one with a pointed moral. In a season that also includes Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld and Strauss's neglected Die Liebe der Danae, Santa Fe has proved once again that it is the most adventurous, if not to say eclectic, opera company around. --By Michael Walsh
...joined the fabled team of photographers for the historical section of the U.S. Farm Security Administration, a group that included Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and Ben Shahn. Examining an impoverished rural America, they made some of photography's most trenchant and memorable images. In the FSA, Mydans learned the moral dimension of photography. No eye cast upon the hardships of those years could afterward decline into a tool for pretty picturemaking. A natural storyteller, he also learned with the FSA to look for his story in faces, in the unsettled gaze of transient cotton choppers and the cocksure grins...
What makes the subject disquieting, however, is not that the decision seems so baffling but that it seems so explainable. Most Americans are convinced that their nation is among history's most moral. Yet a combination of factors, most of them justified and all of them understandable, created a momentum for unleashing a truly monstrous force. Will future historians someday find themselves sorting through the rubble of another atomic attack, by a nation as moral or one that is less so, and come to the same frightening conclusion? It would be far more comforting to think that the dropping...
That may be where Reagan's speech created more problems than it solved; it may have increased the chances that the summiteers will feel compelled to spend their time maneuvering for the moral and ideological high ground rather than negotiating. George Shultz and Eduard Shevardnadze now have just three weeks to work out an agenda that cuts through the rhetoric of both their leaders. --By Strobe Talbott