Word: moralized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From abnegation of responsibility it is but a small step to abnegation of moral standards. A Council treasurer absconds with the funds; athletes gang up on town youths and beat them up; a candidate for office buys votes from a neighboring school. With the former "representative" now interested only in himself (and athletes are a curiously unique kind of representative) and with no one to answer to but himself, many sorts of actions are possible...
...engaged in some minor vandalism and street fighting, they were angrily called to the office of a professor and given a thorough tongue lashing. The substance of his anger was these promising senior scholars had not yet realized that to be a scholar implies a strong degree of moral conscience, than the life of the mind demands a commitment to responsible moral action. It is this statement, so important for an academic community to understand and accept, that has perhaps been lost amid administrative desires to avoid paternalism and bad publicity...
...frontiers" abroad were subjected to a peaceful economic expansions, an "anti-colonial commercial imperialism." To this was added--especially under Wilson and the two Roosevelts--a sense of moral mission, an "imperialism of idealism." The result was a policy of the Open Door, freedom and even protection for American business interests abroad. And the foreign "frontier" was wastefully ravaged much as the resources of the American West were depleted before conservation. American economic power was relied upon to "make the world safe for democracy" (safe, Williams says, for America...
...difficulty was that this moral and economic desire to Americanize the world often ran against the wishes of the people concerned and against the principle of self-determination with which the United States had long identified itself. With the post-war rise of anti-colonial nationalism in Asia and Africa, Williams argues, the policy of American economic expansion has proved more and more useless...
...never see the kidnap and killing of "little Pauly Koestler" in Compulsion, but this only adds to the moral horror. It is the kind of horror that comes from putting yourself in the place of a student who has treated life too academically, has experimented with a detachment that society suddenly finds repulsive...