Word: moralizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shostakovich, music was indeed the last hope and final refuge of a man perpetually thwarted in the expression of his moral outrage. But the notion that his music's meaning could be made intelligible to Stalin, or to anyone else, was only a comforting illusion. Stalin, like all Russia's other tyrants, held an attitude toward the arts that was best summed up by a bureaucrat in a story by the 19th century satirist Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin: "What I do not understand is dangerous for the state...
AMERICAN ELECTIONS are all too often triumphs of style, not substance. We elect our presidents not because we know what they stand for, but because of how well we think they stand: Are they leaders? Do they have moral courage? Can they instill trust in the people? But national candidates, with their image advisers and make-up men, are matched almost step for step by big city mayoral contenders, who play at being gruff or Irish or aggressive or "old town," while hiding issue stances, when they have them, safely away from the prying eyes of the electorate...
...GIVE THEM. For even those actors who never sinned on the stage before don't stand a chance with this cardboard American morality play, Dark of the Moon. Not a chance, "I reckon" (to quote the pet phrase of the playwrights) with all the "fers, plumbs and cottonwood-blooming times" and a script that should burn in the fires of hell. And while they wallow in this sty of Appalachia, adultery and brimstone (and anything else moral that you happen to think of), do not spurn them for their transgressions, for the performance was near as good what mortals might...
Beth Lerch, energy program director at the center, says their opposition to nuclear power is based on moral grounds, and promotes anti-nuke sentiment. The center is directly questioning member churches' reluctance to oppose an industry that produces materials that imperil human lives...
...Massachusetts the Doyle Bill would cut off state funds in the same manner as the Hyde Amendment. Formerly an adjunct to the budget it was passed and signed as a bill this year. Appealed by MORAL (the Massachusetts Organization for the Repeal of Abortion Laws), the bill is under injunction and pending review by the Federal District Court on the basis of a Supreme Court decision that all medically necessary services must be available to the poor. As of last May, hospitals are no longer required to perform abortions upon demand except in case of probable death to the mother...