Word: moralizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...think most people here still think if the [AIDS] as a gay problem. It's not a moral question: the bottom line is one bad f--- will kill you," said Judith R. Barish '88, one of the event's organizers...
...person might be forced to use "situational ethics" as a guide to his conduct. His wife, interviewed on CBS's 60 Minutes, spoke of the responsibility of American Jews to aid Israel. Said she: "I feel my husband and I did what we were expected to do, what our moral obligation was as Jews ((and)) as human beings, and I have no regrets about that...
...first reaction to it was that it was funny. Then I thought about what it implies and what the attitude means. Still, people read too much into it," he said. "I think most people thought it was a good thing. To put social values and to pass moral judgment puts it in a different context," the Leverett house senior added...
HARVARD BUSINESS School provides vocational training. It isn't supposed to shape the moral character of its students, who come to Cambridge to acquire specific skills and knowledge. It's only inevitable that a few alumni will do things of which the school won't be proud, so there is little reason for the soul-searching going on right now. Harvard graduates tend to do well after they leave because they were already talented achievers when they got here. The University claims too much credit for their later success; it isn't morally responsible when they go astray...
...that Judy Blume is writing for grownups, we must regard John Hughes as her successor. His movies, like her young-adult novels, have good qualities. He knows what the teens' Top 40 moral issues are, and he places his stories in palpably realistic contexts. Not only do his kids speak up-to-the-minute adolescent idiom and illustrate the latest dress code perfectly, they attend clangorously class-conscious public high schools, whose unexamined values the protagonists must always challenge -- and defeat...