Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...through it without even attending Harvard--but destiny awaited me elsewhere.) A quote from a student in a class I shopped that made it clear I couldn't take the course: "In this scene, Blanche Dubois is the Uberfemme. She is a stereotype of herself, creating her own moral universe." Blow-by-blow reenactments of romantic encounters between friends, delivered directly to my inbox-most of which are quite hysterical in retrospect (but don't tell them that until the 25th reunion; they won't take it well). A mention of my first 5 a.m. fire drill, when I suddenly...
...moral of the Built to Spill story? There is none. At least not one I can tell you. Live, the band veers from one violently brilliant extreme to another. Some shows tumble into unbelievable 30-minute long jams on b-sides of singles released five years ago. Others are made up of drop-dead perfect sonic recreations of the album, filled out with the intensity of Martsch flailing at his guitar before your eyes. Then again, Martsch has probably completely rewritten the Built to Spill playbook by now, just to keep us critics on our toes. The only...
...teacher in a Southern state who had burned a box of votes for prom queen because the students had elected a pregnant girl. And didn't approve of that so he decided to--woops!--burn the votes. And he was sort of defiant asserting his right to establish a moral example. I was interested in this type of character--a teacher like me who wasn't grounded in religious or moral certainty. These two storylines then intersect to give a more public view of high school--high school as a microcosm...
...give them credit for. I also think that they aren't any more innocent than adults. Maybe that doesn't need to be said when we are dealing with the stuff we are dealing with now, but I felt there's something wrong with the idea that teenagers are morally pure and corrupted by hypocritical adults. And I think Election shows us how kids have to deal with moral dilemmas just as difficult as the ones adults deal with...
...business decision, a political decision or a moral decision? Wal-Mart, the nation?s fifth largest distributor of pharmaceutical products -- and often the sole druggist in smaller communities -- has decided not to sell an FDA-approved medication. The drug is Preven, a prescription morning-after pill that prevents pregnancy. The company says it?s strictly a "business decision"; Planned Parenthood and others involved in the birth control and abortion debate aren?t so sure. They believe the company is reacting to pressure from pro-life groups, though the company denies...