Word: moralizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hand and traditional values on the other. The list of such subjects is long. It includes everything from test-tube conception to right-to-die legislation, insider trading to South African sanctions. In many cases, despite detailed coverage and full public discussion of opposing views, urgent moral and philosophical questions linger and continue to trouble the American conscience...
...McManus: "Americans are arguing the shoulds and should-nots of issues as seldom before. In part, this is because our society and our technology have so increased the range of what is possible, whether it is prolonging life or profiting illicitly in the stock market. In some cases, ancient moral precepts address the problem; in others, wholly new ethical concepts may need to be forged. The new section will report on these vital moral struggles...
Finally, and most significantly, we need to remember King for his vision. He dreamed of a society free of racism and intolerance. He hoped that the struggles of the 1960s would demonstrate the moral turpitude of prejudice. By witnessing the violent white reaction to his non-violent demonstrations, Americans, King surmised, would learn from history and would renounce racism. For a brief time during the exuberant days of civil rights triumphs, it appeared that his dream could be realized...
...opinions assaults, even implicates, the reader. Derisive voices chant an anti-Vichy song. A housewife prepares makeshift tea out of water and carrot tops. The odor of filth rises from the streets. Meanwhile, the heated voices of a cautious bourgeois and a young radical debate questions that offer no moral answers...
Protecting and leading the men of the platoon are the squad sergeants, who, under the obligatory incompetent lieutenant, control the lives and fates of the grunts. Elias (Willem Dafoe) is the idealist, trying to preserve some code of moral behavior at the end of the world. Barnes (Tom Berenger) is a creature of the war, a drawling, scarred, amoral survivor. Both are killers. The only difference is how they go about it. As Chris describes it in one of his voice-over "letter home," the two sergeants fight "for the possession of my soul...