Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...race hate would have been universally dismissed as a hoax--merged with deeper American memories of race and rape and lynching (the mobs sometimes made up of white law officers). Tawana's lie claimed the prestige of tragic precedent and a legacy of sacred indignation. Tawana became indistinguishable in moral terms from, say, Emmett Till, the Chicago 14-year-old lynched in 1955 in Tallahatchie County, Miss., for daring to get fresh with a white woman...
Therein lies the moral dilemma posed to Miller and his squad. They are being asked to risk their life for a young man no better than they are, no different, really. Yes, they understand, there's an element of compassion in their mission. But there's an element of news management as well: the upper levels of government don't want to burden the home front with another shocking story of loss. "I asked myself throughout, Is this a mission of mercy or a mission of murder?" says Spielberg. "But I can't answer that question. I don't think...
...emotional complicity. So the camera takes closeup mug shots of faces in love or anxiety. Or it crouches furtively, behind a tree, in a closet like a fretful nephew or an avid voyeur. It watches ordinary people (including some of the most beautiful actresses in Europe) tangling with moral demons, holding on to what they were taught to believe or--this being real life in Poland just after martial law--what they have learned to settle...
Which is bad news for Ward Connerly and his allies in the anti-affirmative action movement, who have prospered in recent years because the N.A.A.C.P. ceded them the moral high ground. Almost all efforts to increase minority participation in the workplace and on campus have been redefined by opponents as quotas and racial preferences. Lurid stories about white male job seekers or college applicants being passed over for less qualified blacks or women have been accepted as the norm, even though many of the tales turned out to be bogus. Yet the N.A.A.C.P. was in such disarray that it couldn...
Paraphrasing Thomas Berry, who she cited as an intellectual inspiration for the series, Tucker said "religions have developed moral codes for suicide and homicide but not biocide or geocide...