Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...here is where the focus should be on the regulatory aspect of scientific progress. How intelligent chimerical creatures should be treated is a very real moral dilemma, but it is not necessarily the sole outcome of a scientific study of genetically human/animal beings...
Such coherence is an appropriate context for a university, for coherence is the ultimate objective of all our moral reasoning and textual analysis. Though the graduate students among us will decry such sentiment as 19th century, it is nevertheless true that the very processes of cognitive reflection, scientific experimentation, psychological examination, biblical exegesis and sundry other academic pursuits, are attempts to discover, if not logic, at least meaning in the world. Nothing in itself needs explanation in order to exist or live: individuals, societies, the planet itself do not require guide plans, and if they are subject to the programs...
Luckily for would-be male cross-dressers everywhere, courageous male authority figures like Rudy Giuliani have condoned transvestitism from the moral pulpit of elected office. Giuliani's appearance last March could be the watershed in the popular acceptance of male cross-dressing. That's not to say I expect to see Marty in a dress for the next Ec10 lecture (though I dare him to); rather, opposition to cross-dressing in schools and elsewhere should, and I think will, dissipate...
...moral price. Our profitable fantasy culture has set up a resonance by which, in the minds of children, a murderous dream of revenge, say, slips easily through the looking glass into actuality. The greater our creativity, in some sense the more we disturb the ecology, the balance of nature, between the universes of fantasy and actuality. Naturally, this disturbance is most dramatically manifested in children, who lack the reality-testing resources of experience and self-possession to make the necessary distinctions, and to subdue the animals that sometimes get loose in their brains...
...train robbery. Linklater isn't quite skilled enough to make a virtue of these mood shifts and settles for a tone of wry, slightly distant amiability. The result is an agreeable movie, but one that is lacking the edge and intensity that films more self- consciously aware of their moral ambiguities sometimes generate...