Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Summing up, D' Souza said the "moral case for affirmative action has become weaker [as more groups have come under it]" and therefore "while affirmative action might have done some good in the 60s, [it] has become increasingly problematic...
Gautum Mukunda's flawed analysis of the historian's craft misinterprets both a student's moral burdens and what it means to be an American (Opinion, Sept. 28). In the first place, the study of history is not a quest for moralistic lessons that great people can later draw on as inspiration for their own feats. It is the quest for the truth of what happened in the past. Great people tend to draw their own lessons. Mukunda's jingoistic interpretation of the American ideal obscures this quest for truth and limits it to the American sphere of intellectual tradition...
There is a peculiar American cultural convention that "old news is no news," meaning that if any story, no matter how appalling, has seen some light of day a few weeks or months earlier, it is ipso facto drained of moral and political valence. Sure enough, despite the initial shock waves set off by the Starr report, public support for Clinton has remained steady. Two-thirds of Americans still don't want him to resign or be impeached. In fact, two-thirds approve of the job he's doing as President...
VACLAV HAVEL Czech President shows D.C. what a moral leader looks like. Also what a friend looks like...
WILLIAM KRISTOL: "Republicans have old-fashioned extramarital affairs with other adults. Those really are moral lapses that are private and more easily forgiven and very different from taking advantage of a young person who works for you when you're President...