Word: moralizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...playing had a lot of raw energy. He liked to bite every note with sharp teeth -- or maybe even with dull teeth, so it would cut even rougher. Liam O'Flynn, on the other hand, prefers to play a tune refined to the ultimate, with the least possible moral disturbance." In the course of the afternoon we learn the pipes were born sometime in the 18th century; the reason, say some, was that the British banned the playing of the war pipes, having enough trouble with their difficult Irish subjects as it was. Others claim the Uilleann pipes, based...
...First Amendment bans any governmental "establishment of religion." So, to avoid objections from school boards, textbook publishers have often purged mention of the religious underpinnings of events like Thanksgiving or of moral values involving such matters as teenage sex and divorce. The result is a temporal outlook that critics, particularly Christian Fundamentalists, contend has become a creed of its own, secular humanism. Last week U.S. District Judge W. Brevard Hand, who has previously indicated his sympathy for such arguments, banned 45 textbooks from Alabama public schools because they unconstitutionally promote "the religion of secular humanism...
...chief complaint, though, is that Washington supports the dictatorial Chun government. "Without getting rid of the foreign influence of the Americans," one protest leader says, "we cannot restore democracy to Korea." A computer- science major at Seoul National University puts it simply, "We think of America as the most moral government in the world, and yet it backs this immoral Chun government. Why doesn't America support democracy here...
...vision, as Sowell uses the term, is not some mystical moment of perception, "not a dream, a hope, a prophecy, or a moral imperative," but rather what another scholar has called a "pre-analytic cognitive act." It is an almost instinctive sense of what the human race is like and how it functions. "Visions," says Sowell, "are the foundations on which theories are built." The constrained vision imagines people basing all their acts on self- interest and having only a very limited ability to affect their surroundings; the unconstrained vision sees people being guided by reason and always able...
...conceived in the constrained vision." The constrained vision supports equality of opportunity, for example; the unconstrained judges equality not by opportunity but by results. Hence the emotional arguments over such issues as affirmative action in the marketplace or the comparable worth of different jobs, with both sides invoking high moral principles to reinforce their visions...