Word: moralizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Southern Catholic saw herself as a lifelong outsider. When she died at 39 in 1964, she left a legacy of gothic tales obsessively concerned with characters she called "more or less primitive." The author displayed no biases. Blacks are sometimes sympathetic; just as often they bring trouble. The moral force of religion can be redemptive, or it can lead to violence and death. Women may prove enlightened, or they may be evil incarnate. Only one thing is certain: no good deed is ever forgiven, and that insight informs O'Connor's fictions with a perverse brilliance...
...first is that occasional economic slowdowns are unavoidable; the second is the principle that there is a trade-off between policies to prevent recession and policies to prevent inflation. Antirecession medicines are pleasant, even addictive, while anti-inflation medicines are not, and Presidents always prefer the former. The moral challenge for our society is not to squander the Fed's tremendously costly victory over the inflation of the early 1980s. Any program of reviving investment and savings depends on having a stable currency...
...affair with a photographer (Bryan Brown) is never a believable enticement toward a return to civilization. And since Gorillas in the Mist does not reveal whether Fossey's murder was the consequence of the life she chose or just an absurd mischance, the story ends inconclusively, in a moral and dramatic...
Westheimer's book, co-authored with Louis Lieberman, an associate professor of sociology at the City University of New York, says the public schools should prepare students more fully through moral education for life in a sexually permissive society...
Nothing has changed, except that the stewardship of the national pastime has just been handed to a person who holds and acts upon deep moral convictions. This news, set within the recent annals of executive Americana, is so startling as to be preposterous. Even some of the 26 team owners who on Sept. 8 unanimously elected Giamatti commissioner may not fully understand what they have wrought. Superficially, Bart resembles the six previous commissioners, dating back to the original, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, that craggy plinth of probity who was recruited by the owners in 1920 to restore baseball's integrity...