Word: moralizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nordhaus' explanation of this paradox just doesn't hold up. He suggests that when the "sun stopped shining on the divestment issue," protesters--who "lack moral conviction"--"dropped their beliefs" and moved en masse to "a newer and more chic cause," namely the drive of Harvard clerical and technical workers to unionize...
When SASC members returned to campus this year, they found that many of their leaders of exceptional charisma or moral vigor had graduated. They heard no news from South Africa because of the media blackout there and could see no shanties on other campuses nationwide...
...hard to understand how protesters of purportedly deep moral conviction could so quickly drop their beliefs. That when one vital branch of protest gets chilly, they can so quickly fly to another...
...think that discrimination on social and moral levels should be a legal issue and Japan doesn't," said Upham, the author of "Law and Social Change in Post-War Japan." He added that if America were to mimic Japan's legal system, "It would destroy the value we place on individual rights, which may be the only value we have left...
...ends for the Religious Right, as Jerry Falwell departs from Moral Majority and Candidate Pat Robertson looks to the future...