Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This fact, more than any other, pointed up the need for a change in the Administration's position. Dwight Eisenhower, honorably intending to stay above the battle and base his case on the enforcement of law and order, had overlooked the fact that the U.S. needed moral leadership in fighting segregation. Without it, Southern moderates had no place to go. Without it, some of the most patient, effective integration programs were weakened as Southern die-hards mobilized their own legal resources to fight the battle for segregation in the name of states' rights...
Truth was that though Macmillan is not willing to join physically in the military defense of Quemoy, Churchill's words reflected accurately Macmillan's willingness to give his U.S. ally full political and moral backing in time of trouble-something he cannot afford to say with as much vigor as he would wish in the face of British public opinion. From No. 10 came a stiff statement that "Mr. Churchill's article was not authorized," that Britain had "no commitment of any kind with the U.S. over the Far East situation...
...third position, which Adler calls the "natural freedom of self-determination." is defined as an individual's ability to determine for himself-though not necessarily to carry out-what he wishes to do or to become. Category No. 3 varies from No. 2 since it is not a moral state of mind, but a project of action (example: existentialism). Political liberty, it turns out, is nothing more than a variant of circumstantial self-realization, since "the individual's possession of it depends on his having a certain status, bestowed on him by the state, rather than upon...
Ironic that Harvard, the originator of big-time football, was soon to repudiate it utterly. Big-time football was no longer a game for amateurs; and Harvard, unwilling to become an athletic powerhouse, became a moral...
...alphabetized), and orderly arrangements of the paraphernalia of culture. And James not only fitted in, but brought along a system with him. Wolfe, of course, was a little long in some directions and too thin in others, to reconcile with the filing cabinet. Morris took it all as a moral lesson, and went about looking for stones and leaves and unlocked doors...