Word: moralizer
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Another basic element of Dukakis' world view is a moral sense that U.S. policy must be based on the "fundamental decency and values of the American people," rather than on a hard-nosed, realpolitik approach to strategic interests. In this regard, he is reminiscent of Jimmy Carter, which could be a source of trouble. That is evident in Dukakis' emphasis on human rights in the Soviet Union and elsewhere, and it underlies his vigorous opposition to Reagan's approach to southern Africa. Dukakis argues that the most important source of America's influence in the world, and of sustained domestic...
...tragedy was known by then. "I want a statement sent to Iran that we deeply regret this incident," he said simply. Later, when there was quibbling whether "regret" was an apology, Reagan ended the argument. "It's an apology as far as I am concerned. We're a moral nation, and we take responsibility for our mistakes...
Evelyn Waugh was not in the best of spirits when he wrote A Handful of Dust. He poured his grief at the dissolution of his first marriage into this tale of how dimly amoral Brenda Last cuckolded her dimly moral husband Tony. Waugh managed to cast a cold, wickedly glittering eye on these foolish innocents, and to write about them with bitter, controlled irony. Both suppressing and drawing upon fury and bathos, he produced a masterpiece...
Next month the policymaking General Convention of the Episcopal Church (2.7 million members) will consider a resolution that decries casual abortions and their high numbers, now put at 1.5 million a year, while retaining a "moral option for termination of pregnancy" in some extreme circumstances, such as rape and incest. Two weeks ago, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), with 3 million members, called for a task force to review its strong, 18-year-old prochoice position. And last May the General Conference of the 9.3 million- member United Methodist Church officially moderated the church's prochoice position. The denomination continues...
...usual unanimous show of party cards. Many delegates are convinced that the conference will decide not only the future of perestroika but also the very course of world Communism. "If conservative forces manage to cut short our revolutionary perestroika and throw us backward, it would mean the moral death and destruction of our party, the party of Lenin," wrote Playwright Alexander Gelman, a Gorbachev supporter. If the conference fails, Gelman warned, "society would be led down the ((democratic)) path not by our party but by some other political force, which would emerge from the people in the whirlwind of crisis...