Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rush to explain and a plea to excuse. One attorney said, "Brian, the individual, the human being, the nice, normal kid, has been displayed, and I think that it gives the public a different perspective, and I think it's helpful." Helpful to whom? Not to a moral life. There are monsters among us who, with wealthy parents and a battalion of lawyers, tap a culture ready to forget the victim and forgive the accused, especially if they remind us of ourselves. But not this time, not this evil...
...conservatives who have appeared at Forum events. When Ralph Reed spoke on Oct. 30, he could not have received a warmer introduction from Mark Merritt, a former Republican National Committee chieftain who runs an Institute of Politics (IOP) study group this semester. This demagogue Reed, whose unctuous invective against "moral decay" was the embodiment of religious hypocrisy, whose appropriation of the Kennedys' rhetoric served only to undermine their name and that of the school, was welcomed by the K-School establishment in order to promote (over C-SPAN) its spanking new conservative image. Forum director Campion comments, "I think what...
...genes responsible for his insects' longevity, but does believe genetic manipulation can be a key to prolonging life. Manipulating any senescence genes could be years--indeed, decades--away. But the alternative--subjecting human beings to the same selective mating processes applied to lab animals--is out of the moral question. "We're not going to be breeding humans the way we breed fruit flies," he says. "We have to find some less fascistic method of intervening in aging...
...Gibson didn't have a deep moral message. So he used some occasional profanity. So he expressed views that some of us (including myself) may have disagreed with. So what? I don't want Mel Gibson to spew forth some drivel about how awful violence in the movies is when that's not what he actually believes. Gibson answered honestly, and yes, a little flippantly. He was light-hearted and humorous. I just don't understand how that relates to Mr. Jones' claim that Harvard is, "the finest school in this hemisphere, if not the world." Is that really relevant...
...moral controversy is underway after Cambridge State Representatives Timothy J. Toomey and Alvin E. Thompson proposed a bill last week which would name a Cambridge bridge after Charles F. Flaherty, the former Speaker of the House, who stepped down in disrepute earlier this year...