Word: moralizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Prize, is currently better known for her life than for her art. For the film of Out of Africa was itself a masque. The romantic figure played by Meryl Streep was a woman of action. In fact, the writer was a great solitary who tried to work out every moral conflict at her desk, in tales, letters or learned analyses. In 1923-24, for example, she made her famous and tortured marriage to Bror Blixen and her doomed affair with Denys Finch Hatton the subjects of a brief, piercing look at Eros from the inside. Scrutinizing the relation of morality...
Second, it insults the employers of these people by implying that they are the moral equivalent of slaveowners. Would Grossman prefer it if, out of concern for the dignity of these "slaves" and her own troubled conscience, they were fired from their jobs and left to fend for themselves? Or, better yet, that the illegal aliens among them be shipped back to Mexico where there is greater equality of misery...
THERE ARE TWO common responses to such phenomena, neither appropriate. The first is to blame the victims; the other is to search for a situation where racism presented itself in all its ugliness. "Then racism becomes a visible issue with clearly moral implications. But such occurrences are increasingly rare, for the KKK has little influence. The racism which plagues Black Americans today cannot be found in rural Georgia. It's more subtle but also more widespread...
Although no suicide note has been found Kohlberg, an expert in moral development has been suffering from a severe parasitic infection, which he picked up while traveling in Central "America more than 15 years ago, said Dean of the Ed School Patricia. A. Graham. Kohlberg's family reportedly fears that a recurrence of the illness, which Graham has termed "long standing and painful," is responsible for the disappearance...
Because of the uncertainty of Kohlberg's whereabouts, the registrar of the Ed School has cancelled the two classes the was scheduled to teach this semester, "Philosophy of Moral Development and Moral Education" and "Contemporary Research and practices in Moral Education...