Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cares not only about the intellectual achievement of a given work of scholarship but about its moral implications," she says...
...Still, Lee did spectacularly well -- not only in beating off the kowtowing Liberal Party, but helping to coax out three times the expected number of voters. Now Lee is pressing his moral mandate hard: "We will do our best to push for full democracy in the next elections in the year 2000," he told the South China Morning Post. Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa is unlikely to budge from the Basic Law blueprint -- that is, eight years till full democracy. Tung isn't in any hurry -- and no wonder. In most democracies, he'd be out of a job today...
Here in pure form is the Clinton doctrine: peace through norms. Build the norm, and they--the recalcitrant of the world--will come. They may not sign, but they will be constrained by the moral force of an international consensus they dare not defy...
...adolescence almost as an entitlement. Disorienting, then, to confront the sometimes fatal precocity of the young in Finnegan's marginal world. H.L. Mencken had the American masses down as the "booboisie," hopelessly straight and dull and dumb. Finnegan catches perfectly the way ordinary America today may pass through some moral looking glass into a devouring universal consumers' bazaar wherein the remotest locales sell the fanciest drugs and perversions, and the minds of the young, ungrounded by their absent parents' experience or protection, become unrecognizably weird. Mindy, a model-pretty 17-year-old and former Nazi Low Rider gone over...
...last. Bishops usually retire at 75, and the Pope is unlikely to grant an extension. Made Archbishop by Pope Paul VI at the church's liberal apogee in 1977, Weakland by 1984 induced the Conference of Catholic Bishops to write a pastoral letter calling American poverty a "moral scandal." From then on, almost every year saw a bombshell lobbed at conservatism in general or--so it sometimes seemed--John Paul II in particular. Vatican ideological crackdowns had produced "much cruelty," Weakland wrote; many competent women "feel they are second-class citizens in a Church they love"; the Pope's decree...