Word: moralizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mild paramnesia as they again hear of the novelist's neurotic childhood, his crush on his psychoanalyst's wife, his dissolute years at Oxford, his conversion to Roman Catholicism, his beginnings as a journalist, and the physical and spiritual wanderings that led to the writing of his popular moral thrillers...
Scenes is a game too, cunningly constructed, sleekly appointed, exuberantly performed by a cast that picks up where bad taste leaves off. This one is not for the kids. Even adults will need moral shock absorbers; Scenes spits out its wit like a Heathers for grownups. Its pleasures may seem arid or acid to anyone who couldn't enjoy, say, a Restoration comedy as it might be played on Dynasty. But in a season when most movies are remakes of most other movies, Scenes is an original. And if you are in the right black mood, you could laugh till...
...easy to say that biology is destiny and that all violent youths are simply captives of their physiology or "raging hormones." Society has generally been able to control and channel aggressive impulses through its basic institutions -- home, schools and church. But these moral pillars are crumbling...
...example, the Moral Reasoning component of the Core faces a particularly severe shortage of courses, largely because its definition is interdisciplinary and requires innovation from standard departmental courses. In fact, the subcommittee report says that when courses, such as the ever-popular Moral Reasoning 22, "Justice," need to be replaced, the Core area will face difficulty in finding adequate substitutes...
Lastly, it has not gone unnoticed--at least by this observer--that Harvard has traditionally had an inordinate impact upon the practices of other institutions of American higher education. It therefore has inherited a moral reponsibility of national import with respect to the issue of faculty diversity. To some extent, this view is similar to that of those who have struggled so mightily for the Harvard Corporation to divest its stock in companies that are in South Africa. However, in the case of hiring a fair number of Black faculty, there cannot be an analogous counter-argument suggesting that...