Word: moralizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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West Germany's Chancellor Schmidt [June 6], "the Doer," is one person we could use. His moral views, political experience and common sense about people and power are impressive. U.S. Government officials could benefit from a strong dose of such leadership...
...bleeding." One more move, north of the border? "It would depend on whether we were welcome." Henry Kissinger, for one, certainly believes they should be. Last week he admitted pressing Mexican authorities to issue the Shah his 90-day tourist visa. Said he: "I felt the U.S. had a moral obligation to stand by a man who had been a friend...
Lifton concedes that most other German professionals also capitulated to Hitler, with certain heroic exceptions. What made the corruption of physicians so crucial to Hitler was that their support provided moral and scientific legitimacy for his crazed racial and biological notions. They did this in varying ways: by cooperating in sterilization and euthanasia programs, by counseling patients toward "racially pure" marriages, by expelling Jews from medicine, and by actually helping carry out the Holocaust. After all, it was doctors who supervised the "selections" at the concentration camps-deciding who would live to work, who would die in the gas chambers...
With all these formal distinctions, the thematic interpretation of Manhattan gains in complexity. It has been described as "harsh but very funny meditation on what it means to be a moral man in an amoral age" (Boston Pheonix), or, according to a more "profound" reading, as a film which shows "the cultural collapse that influences personal deficiency, striking the balance between the tenderness for the victims of these disasters and toughness about their contributions to the moral lassitude of the time" (Time). These and similar "readings" of Allen's ideological concept seem to me less pertinent when compared...
...with that. He towered over Injuns, Nips, and Gooks. Most of Wayne's movies had one-word titles-McClintock, Branigan, McQ, Chisum, Stagecoach- so that his legions of addled fans could remember them. And his movies were all Black and White; Panavision never brought the colorings of moral ambiguity to these flicks. You were a baddie or you were a goodie; those who opposed the Duke were deranged sadists who frequently...