Word: moralizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson began mauling Dartmouth early in the second quarter. The rout continued into the third. The moral question facing the Crimson: when are you supposed to stop? When is enough enough...
While one can talk openly about the picture's manner, one dare not get into its intricate plotting, which tweaks, turns and doubles back on itself. House of Games is not a vehicle carrying a Mamet moral; it is the moral, telling us much about the irresistible pull of our own cleverness and how that must inevitably bring us to disaster. It is Margaret, the tyro games player, who turns out to be a bad sport. She demonstrates in a startling way that some funny, phony games can turn out to have deadly consequences. Finally, she must stop pretending...
...tech-noir gloss, this is still a traditional thriller, eager to deliver moral lessons with its frissons. Cheat on your wife, and maybe she gets hurt. Leave your family, and maybe they get kidnaped. Go to bed with a woman you work with, and maybe she dies. These are New Hollywood's scary metaphors for sex in the high-risk '80s. Last year The Fly said that a woman could get involved with a nice guy who metamorphoses into a slavering insect. The current hit Fatal Attraction preaches that no man is safe from a fling who gets flung...
Justice prevailed this year as Moral Reasoning 22, "Justice," displaced the perennial number-one course favorite, Social Analysis 10, "Principles of Economics...
Displaying Harvard's "Moral Perfectionism," asecond Moral Reasoning course joined "Justice" asnumber seven in the top 10. Moral Reasoning 34 has323 students...