Word: moralizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fairness, Jimmy Carter has had an intellectual grasp of the energy problem since the day he walked into the Oval Office. He rightly declared the moral equivalent of war early in his term to cope with the impending crisis. He got little help from any other segment of American society. And transferring his statistical conclusions into leadership in such a hostile environment has been and remains an immense problem. Having formulated the energy plan and declared it publicly, he turned to other things. Energy slipped down his list...
...flourish is the use of a flashback format in the first half. Besides being a TV cliché (especially in nonfiction dramas), the device is counterproductive. Whenever Dean reaches a pause in his reminiscences, the show stops dead the hero and his lawyer (Ed Flanders) can rehash the obvious moral lessons of what has just happened...
...cult of youth by demonstrating the grotesque lengths to which some people will go to try to cheat mortality. Since only a few thousand of the world's most privileged people are in a position to cope with these problems, it is hard to work up much moral indignation about them...
...opportunity to urge corporations to stay in South Africa, to work with the new elites and to aid in the revitalization of the nation's economy and of its people. Instead, if President Bok's admonishment to the community is still followed, the Corporation will again place profits above morality. If returns on investment diminish severely, the Corporation's response will probably be exactly that being urged upon today: it will divest, or vote for resolutions calling for withdrawal. The University community may suddenly find that the sale of $300 million in stock will not be as expensive...
...irony in this scenario is overwhelming. Harvard, as an institution, will abdicate its moral responsibilities twice. Today, it has the opportunity to divest, to show the world that it does have a conscience, and that it will no longer live upon profits drawn from the very lives of an oppressed people. It has not taken that position. Tomorrow, once the return on investment is seriously interrupted, the Corporation could show that helping a people towards recovery is more important than monetary gain. Instead, if Mr. Bok's arguments are followed to their logical conclusion, the Corporation probably will with-draw...