Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Halberstam, author of such books as The Best and the Brightest and The Reckoning, this new work may be his most appealing, mainly because it is quirky and informal and the author leaves his moral fervor in the bat rack. He intersperses the season's important action with portraits of key personnel: the Yanks' Tommy Henrich, Jerry Coleman, Yogi Berra; the Sox's Bobby Doerr, Ellis Kinder, Johnny Pesky. While he does adequately by Boston, clearly his heart is in the Bronx. In his hagiography, the Yankees are a little more godlike. Perhaps they were...
...beginning was mainline Protestantism. At Plymouth Rock and Jamestown, and for 3 1/2 centuries thereafter, the denominations known today by that label defined the spiritual and moral ethos of the U.S. These prominent Wasp bastions nurtured the founders, imparting to them notions of republican government and individual freedom. Dominating American Protestantism, these churches shaped virtually every aspect of an evolving nation: its pioneering colleges, its 19th century novels of sin and rectitude, its capitalist ethic of striving and saving, and a world-conquering spirit that was shared by missionaries and entrepreneurs alike. Mainliners were at the forefront of social crusades...
...society." What, then, does their decline portend for a society that has been so largely built upon their values and precepts? That is hardly a trivial matter. How the nation defines itself spiritually will have much to do with its future political directions and with the strength of its moral foundations, which are increasingly under siege by drugs, violence and pervasive greed...
...Shaw's heroes are men of moral passion." (English...
...surprise, then, that it was here in Pago Pago that Somerset Maugham set his famous confrontation between the missionary and Sadie Thompson. Or that discussions of Samoa's moral -- and cultural -- identity continue as heatedly as the much publicized debate between Margaret Mead's classic vision of pastoral innocence (Coming of Age in Samoa) and Derek Freeman's revisionist account of violence and rape (Margaret Mead and Samoa -- The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth). "Being bilingual and bicultural doesn't mean you have to be schizophrenic," says Bernie Oordt, who taught at a local high school for twelve...