Word: moralizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Panama, liked the idea but not the venue. "You're a Panamanian," he said. "You should do this in Panama." Delvalle took the advice, returned home and made his dramatic announcement on Panamanian television -- only to have Noriega turn the tables and fire him. When the U.S. offered only moral support, Delvalle was forced into hiding. A top U.S. official offers this startling explanation of why Washington wasn't better prepared: "We didn't think he ((Delvalle)) would...
Back in the Arbat, Sasha's family and friends grapple with their lives and careers, while the Kremlin bureaucracy manhandles a recalcitrant economy, ponders the growing power of Hitler's Germany and worries about which way Stalin will jump. Readers expecting a personification of moral depravity will be disappointed. Instead, Rybakov's Stalin resembles a deeply suspicious and ruthless vestige of the revolutionary past -- if not a historical necessity, at least an inevitability...
More fundamentally, the debate is over the role of law in upholding the nation's moral fabric. One function of the law is to express society's moral disapproval of or repugnance to an activity. Although that may sometimes conflict with personal freedom or even pragmatic considerations, it is still a principle that helps order American society, as it does every civilization...
...Werner Nachmann was the most powerful figure in West Germany's close-knit, 30,000-member Jewish community. As chairman of the Central Council of Jews for 22 years, he played a key role in German-Jewish reconciliation. At a funeral ceremony, Chancellor Helmut Kohl eulogized Nachmann as a "moral authority" who had "made his mark on the history of our republic...
...small example of the high moral and intellectual standards with which Harvard conducted its own anti-union campaign, I refer to the following graph copied from one of the "informational" pamphlets Harvard distributed to employees. Whether or not the actual data about "average" salary increases have been distorted I cannot say, since no raw data or notes are provided. What I can say is that whoever was making up the graph saw a disturbing trend, among both union and non-union staff, toward lower rates of increase as the years progressed. Therefore, despite titling the graph "...Increases...