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Word: moralizer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Happily, the series has revived itself to welcome Dalton. It opens with the moral dilemma that Full Metal Jacket took nearly two hours to waddle up to: whether a good soldier must kill a pretty young sniper (the unenticing Maryam d'Abo). Then it's off to Vienna, London, Tangier and Afghanistan -- the usual guided tour of In spots and hot spots, with a politically savvy cast of , adversaries. An honorable KGB boss and a duplicitous KGB agent. Afghan freedom fighters who push opium on the side. A renegade arms dealer who may remind you of General Secord's friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bond Keeps Up His Silver Streak | 8/10/1987 | See Source »

...when I walked through Harvard Square to see the huge poster in your window of Oliver North, proclaiming "Lt. Col. Oliver North: a Real American." Choosing to sell this poster showed bad judgment. Choosing to so proudly and prominently display it showed more than bad judgment--it showed gross moral insensitivity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bidding Farewell to a Real American Hero | 8/7/1987 | See Source »

...essentially national in import. Decisions about zoning are one thing. Those about racism or nuclear energy are of a different order. The states rights defense cheapens public debate by reducing issues of the utmost conscience to arguments of jurisdiction and power which by nature ignore what is right or moral...

Author: By David J. Barron, | Title: The Left's Adoption of States' Rights | 8/7/1987 | See Source »

...least for people like me, God provides a basis on which to make judgments. God provides me with a moral world, distinctions between right and wrong. Other people obviously don't think that way, and some of them, at least, are vocal about their beliefs. And I believe in their right to think the way they do--that right is and should be protected by the state...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Searching for Religion's Middle Ground | 8/4/1987 | See Source »

There are plenty of people who don't think atheists are damned to Hell, yet who don't dismiss God's relevance to the world. These are not the Moral Majority--the Moral Majority wouldn't consider them moral. But then again, many atheists would consider them deluded, misguided or just plain silly. Although they're harder to see and hear, these people are proably the majority. And their belief in God should receive the respect accorded to the other points of view. Although they are less flamboyant, their believe is just as strong...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Searching for Religion's Middle Ground | 8/4/1987 | See Source »

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