Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...erupted in ghastly events: assassinations, black riots, student protests, rising crime. America faced a crisis of pluralism: warring groups and individuals refused to pay the price, whether in money or changed attitudes, that might broaden social justice. A decade that began with a quest for moral grandeur seemed to be ending on the defensive, mired in the sheer effort to keep society from exploding...
...exactly like a corporation, from the area sales representatives in the Milwaukee headquarters to the top management people from New York. Nothing is required of a corporation other than that it produce its product: the product is its own justification. Like a corporation president, Nixon needed no high moral purpose or sonorous title (not Senator Nixon or Governor Nixon, just Mr. Nixon) with which to justify his enterprise: he simply knew what he wanted, and was going after it frankly and cooly...
...sect promotes its cause-as it does in Japan-with a revivalist fervor that suggests an Oriental version of Moral Re-Armament. Its Youth Division has a flashy fife-and-drum corps replete with majorettes. Its thrice-weekly newspaper, the World Tribune, is filled with ardent testimonials of what conversion has meant. Every member is expected to help expand the rolls by the practice of shakubuku*-proselytizing -wherever he goes. Those who can afford it are urged to make one of the chartered-jet pilgrimages to the head temple of Taisekiji in Japan, which more than 10,000 members visit...
...they develop, though, members of the sect are expected to chant for spiritual blessings, such as moral rectitude and deeper understanding of the faith. "Your desires get higher and higher," says Sandi Mytinger, 25, "and your life gets higher and higher." Ultimately, the goal of Soka Gakkai is the establishment of an earthly kingdom come -an era of world peace that will be achieved when at least one-third of mankind adopts the sect's version of true Buddhism. The movement clearly has a long...
Pope's genius is finally inexplicable. Quennell contents himself with saying that though the poet himself thought that he was possessed by a high moral passion, his ferocious energies sprang from psychological sources that were "dark and turbid" (even Freud conceded that genius contained mysteries inca pable of exploration). Pope's own great predecessor and model John Dryden (at the age of twelve, Pope visited Will's Coffee House to gaze at him) summed the matter up: "Great wits are sure to madness near allied/And thin partitions do their bounds divide." Pope was only 14 when...