Word: moralizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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INSTEAD of quick action, the committee proposed layer upon layer of new bureaucracy. The Verba Report makes no stinging criticisms of Harvard's recruitment policies and offers no resounding moral statements about the need to increase FAS's diversity...
Reardon said that universities and the NCAA should be more concerned with the moral character of a school's coach and athletic director, rather than "lots of little violations most people don't pay attention...
Theologically, the church teaches the infallibility of the Bible. Yet its approach is more evangelical than Fundamentalist. The church's eight elders do not generally take positions on controversial issues like liberation theology or school prayer. On what is perhaps the most controversial of all current moral issues, they ruled abortion out as a birth-control method but declared that it may be necessary "in exceptional cases...
...Nation, received the loudest response when he said, "Until the threat of murder by contract is lifted, all authors should declare themselves as coconspirators. It is time for all of us to don the yellow star and end the hateful isolation of our colleague." In a grander flight of moral outrage, Mailer told the crowd, "Khomeini has offered us the opportunity to regain our frail religion, which happens to be faith in the power of words and our willingness to suffer for them...
...three grossly misleading Crimson articles, which treated the incident as a straightforward occurrence of homophobic violence and implied that Mather House was thus divided only between enlightened citizens and petty bigots, Defeat Homophobia was able to turn a bizarre and unresolved charge of gay-on-straight harassment into a moral crusade, its alleged perpetrator into a martyr and the Mather debate into a purge of alleged homophobes: anyone who felt the incident to be an inappropriate cause celebre for even the most worthy cause...