Word: moralizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THERE'S talk of "moral victory" from both sides but no real winner at the end of a 20-month labor dispute that pitted the University against its 41 uniformed patrolmen. An agreement reached shortly before classes began gives the patrolmen 5 percent annual increases in pay and benefits for the next 46 months. But the patrolmen still don't have one weekend off in each four, which was their central demand...
FROM the beginning, Aquino's biggest selling point was also her greatest liability. Untainted by previous experience in politics, Aquino's naivete was a powerful moral highground from which to attack the blatant machinations of Marcos and his cronies. But once she came to power, her inexperience showed...
...fanatic can be both wise and wily. Indeed, the fanatic has a distinct advantage in choosing means. So utterly convinced is he of the rightness of his ends that he lacks ordinary inhibiting scruples in his choice of means. He need consider only their instrumental value, not their moral valence. Not for him messy moral conflicts when matching means and ends. Everything matches...
...hard determining fact of all Japanese culture, including design, is the country's size and island insularity. Land in Tokyo goes for as much as $846.7 million an acre. Thus an architect's treatment of space takes on a sort of moral dimension. Isozaki was condemned by some compatriots for the spaciousness of an art museum he designed in the early '70s. Now that he is busy with American commissions, Isozaki himself is a bit thrown by the comparative Yankee boundlessness. "In the U.S.," he says, "even where I had thought I might be taking up too much space...
...human bondage that makes serious fiction on this subject so rare and so difficult to achieve. Imaginative literature at its best does not reinforce received opinions but disturbs them, puts them to the test of experience relived. And what is obvious to readers now -- that slavery was a moral abomination -- did not appear as unchallenged truth to everyone embroiled in its practice then. Those who possessed and those who were possessed struggled, like most people at all times, everywhere, to get through their days; neither history nor the exigencies of survival allowed them much time for meditation or outrage...