Word: moralizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fund, Edelman has ensured that even though the young cannot vote or make campaign contributions, they are not ignored in Washington. In her just published book, Families in Peril (Harvard University Press; $15.00), she contends, "As adults we are responsible for meeting the needs of children. It is our moral obligation. We brought about their births and their lives, and they cannot fend for themselves...
Edelman's effectiveness depends as much on her adroit use of statistics as on moral suasion. She never tires of pointing out that more than 12 million American youngsters -- 25% of the national total -- live below the federally defined poverty level. Or that while poverty has declined among other age groups, it has risen steadily among children. Or that the 10.8 infant deaths among every 1,000 live births in 1984 gave the U.S. one of the highest infant mortality rates among 20 leading industrialized nations. (And from 1983 to 1984, the C.D.F. reported last month, infant mortality rates increased...
...resort in Palm Beach, Fla., last month. A teenager in the audience drew a standing ovation when he asked the former Delaware Governor whether he agreed that AIDS was a sign from God that homosexuality is an "abomination." When DuPont replied that AIDS was a "medical problem, not a moral problem," he was booed. Said an activist in the audience: "DuPont blew...
...speech policy and proposes an ideological test for the provision of Harvard police protection to visiting speakers. He would deny police protection to any speaker whom he or a majority of students finds provocative, inflammatory or offensive, or whom anyone hates enough to supress through violence. In an astonishing moral inversion, Mr. Malisani complains that unpopular speakers "provoke other to riot" by peacefully expressing ideas which their opponents violently suppress. His proposal would allow private thought-vigilantes to suppress precisely thsoe ideas which free speech is primarily intended to protect, those which challenge the underlying foundations of prevailing beliefs...
...suggest that the unconstrained are elitist, and hypocrites as well. "It is consistent for the unconstrained vision to promote equalitarian ends by unequalitarian means," he writes, "given the great differences between those whom Mill called 'the wisest and best' and those who have not yet reached that intellectual and moral level...