Word: moralizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interment of Moral Majority next? Falwell stoutly pronounces the organization in sound shape, with annual revenues of $8.4 million and a mailing list of 6 million names. But it is not likely to be as visible a part of the landscape under Falwell's anointed successor, Atlanta Entrepreneur Jerry Nims. Says Robert Skolrood, director of the National Legal Foundation: "We have passed through our strident period...
...case of such manifest evils as slavery and Nazism. Though against rigid church-state separation, Colson argues that each institution has a distinct, God-given role. Churches should emphasize spirituality and avoid the corrupting enticements of political power. Similarly, he opposes government- organized school prayers, insisting that "propagating moral vision" should be the job of the church, not the state...
...enjoyed having the last word, and once more he has it: "Never again will there be a Ronald Reagan-Jerry Falwell dual view for the Religious Right. It is now a sophisticated movement with many leaders who are issues-oriented. Don't make the mistake of thinking that the Moral Majority is dead. It is no longer one person...
...when it happens, it happens big. And there are earlier, subtler pleasures: the understated idealizing of the Gallaghers' homelife, the funny- horny touches in the sex scene. Douglas and Close are nicely cast, attractive opposites. His all-American-boy bafflement suggests a Gary Cooper stripped of moral authority and ill at ease in a grown-up dilemma. Her intimidating energy recalls the young Katharine Hepburn but with a voracious libido. And behind them both stands another more portly silhouette: the ghost of Alfred Hitchcock. Dan is the basic Hitchcock protagonist, a fairly decent man in a horribly compromised position...
...selfishness that soon erupts in the face of trouble is, the producers admit, meant as a subtle protest against the self-congratulatory individualism of the Reagan era. But with or without allusive implications, the story jolts its passive characters -- and spectators -- into a world where every action has its moral consequences. The royal family proves unheroic and useless in a crisis. Neighborliness among the peasants turns to mistrust in a brilliant song of mutual finger pointing, Your Fault. Several characters die brutally in the grasp of the giantess or at the hands of panicky fellow citizens. Yet what comes...