Word: moralizations
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...LIFE in 1936, as its first issue was going to press, Mydans was fresh from the fabled team of photographers for the U.S. Farm Security Administration?Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange among them?whose pictures would become our collective memory of the Depression. From them, he learned the moral dimension of photography and its power to turn life into theater. During World War II, he and his wife were captured by the Japanese in Manila and spent nearly two years in prison camps. But he was released in time to take his famous shot of General Douglas MacArthur sloshing onto...
...election year, it is too much to expect serious and complicated moral issues to be treated with seriousness and complexity. Nonetheless, the way Democrats have managed to caricature and debase the debate over embryonic stem-cell research stands in a class by itself...
...other answer is that Krause believes his portrayals of laceration fulfill some moral obligation: "I think a lot of people are in agony, and if we only tell stories about ourselves that help us escape our lives, I don't think I'm doing my job. If you can be open about the agony and the anguish, maybe people can talk about it a little more freely and not be all alone. The less alone we all feel, the better...
...Moral of Martha...
Martha Stewart's prison sentence for conspiracy, obstruction of justice and making false statements to federal investigators is a stark reminder that if we fail to obey the law, we will suffer the consequences [July 26]. From time to time we need to be reminded of our moral responsibilities. Stewart could have avoided the scandal that enveloped her simply by taking the high road and admitting that she had made a mistake. BRUCE WEINSTEIN New York City...