Word: moralizer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Eisenhower's simplistically dangerous theory of massive retaliation and the bigger bang for the buck. He was a moderate who refused to push civil rights legislation through a Congress dominated by southern conservatives. He was a radical who, for the first time since Lincoln, confronted the nation with the "moral outrage" of the position of the black in society. He was a pragmatist who competed fiercely with the Soviets in the armaments race that he might parley with them from a position of strength. He was an idealist who sent the Peace Corps into Third World areas where Americans...
...house was of many mansions. There were mistakes--Vietnam, the Bay of Pigs, arguably the Missile Crisis. Yet there were positive steps forward--a move toward detente with the Test Ban Treaty, the recognition of a world of diversity and of a nation's right to neutrality, the moral acknowledgement that the situation of black people was a disgrace to the nation. If these "calmer days" are to bring us a clearer judgment of JFK, then the black must be seen with the white, with a good deal of gray in between...
Political and military leaders must "compromise between moral and practical behavior," Motta Gur, former chief of staff of the Israeli Armed Forces, told about 150 people in Emerson 108 yesterday...
...addition, the super-competitive Division One of the ECAC has now entered a patrician-plebian stage, where the stronger teams get stronger and the weaker squads increase their moral victories each season...
Spenser, as readers know from Robert Parker's four other novels about the man, is a flip, middleaged, not too successful private investigator from Boston. He has style though and, rarer yet, compassion and a moral code. Asked by a Massachusetts millionaire to track down the gang of crazies who killed his wife and daughters with a bomb in a London restaurant, Spenser replies: "I don't do assassinations." But he does do bounty hunts. The price: $2,500 a head, plus expenses, for the capture, dead or alive, of the nine terrorists involved. Spenser's marks are members...