Word: moralizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...memorial to the brave sons of Harvard who gave their lives in the World Wars. Unfortunately, of late, it has come to represent something far more trivial: the Core Curriculum. No longer a haven for heroes, it is now home to "Ec 10," "Justice," "Jesus and the Moral Life," and the newest addition, "Cultural Revolution...
...Core offers too few courses in each of its 10 subject areas and consequently, large classes result. For example, last fall each area averaged a mere 4.3 course offerings, with some areas, like Moral Reasoning, offering as few as two classes. When only two classes are offered for a student body of over 6000, those classes obviously will become large and unwieldly. These large classes become, as Professor Richard Pipes told the Harvard Gazette, "like an Off-Broadway production...
...inhabitant of Baton Rouge, home to Swaggart's multi-million dollar estate, church and Bible College, I derive particular amusement and satisfaction from his fall. Swaggart represented the hypocrisy and hatred that arises from militant organized religion. The moral of his fevered sermons--often laden with anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic overtones--was to give more money to his ministry...
...here. Names lifted from other Hawthorne novels (Blithedale, Pyncheon) crop up in unexpected contexts; as Sarah seeks her karma in the Sunbelt, she has reason to resent "my old-fashioned Puritan conscience." But Updike's use of such references should not be taken too somberly; the stern, rock-ribbed moral universe of The Scarlet Letter serves here as a subtle counterpoint to a comic vision of anything-goes ethics in mid-1980s America...
...winning chemistry with Massachusetts voters stems from a confidence in his intelligence and personal integrity. He has drawn top people into government. A Massachusetts politician who dislikes Dukakis acutely, says he has never in his 40 years seen a leader with a more solid moral base...