Word: moralizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Unless moral positions are held firm, they mean nothing. The time for punishing Nixon is past--he resigned in order to spare a reeling nation the torment of prosecuting their chosen leader, but to restore to him public respect cheapens the ideal of our nation's highest office...
...presbytery had ordered Swaggart to refrain from preaching for a full year after he acknowledged "moral failure" last February. Although church officials and Swaggart have not revealed the details, a prostitute claims Swaggart paid her to pose nude for him. Swaggart had agreed to a three-month suspension but refused to comply with the one-year ban. Such a long absence, he feared, would cripple fund raising for his Bible College and $140 million- a-year Worldwide Ministries. Swaggart said last week that he still plans to honor the original three-month suspension and not return to the pulpit until...
...1960s, a popular adage was "Never trust anyone over 30." Today, not only do activists trust their elders, they work along side them, as student support for the Harvard Radcliffe Alumni/ac Against Apartheid attests. Student activists working in coalition with adults is an indication of the strength of moral purpose that motivates those advocating divestment, not a sign of weakness in the campus movement...
...residential halls, their extracurricular activities and extensive counseling services, colleges and universities have created a world that dominates the lives and thoughts of countless young people during years in which their character and values are being formed. Under these conditions, students must get help from their universities in developing moral standards or they are unlikely to get much assistance at all. Thus, even if presidents are overburdened and professors happen to prepare themselves in specialized disciplines, universities have an obligation to try to help their students understand how to lead ethical, reflective, fulfilling lives. One can appreciate the difficulty...
...first things first. The plot is, well, trite, and it's the main liability of the production. Predicting the next development, and sometimes the next line, is about as difficult as passing Moral Reasoning 30. Sometimes it's unavoidable; the next event just pops into your head, and all the dissembling by the actors cannot obscure the set-up for the Jimmy Zoole's (Daniel O'Keefe) next one-liner or prank...