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Word: moralizer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard is not accepting the status quo," he said. "Harvard is about being a moral leader for the country. We are not going to let this stand unchallenged...

Author: By M. DOUGLAS O malley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Graduates Protest Greenspan Speech | 6/25/1999 | See Source »

...Bill Clinton having an attack of high moral fiber? "I've never seen the administration fighting so hard as they are on this," said Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., before he watched his steel-import quota bill come up three votes short on a procedural vote that would have boosted its chance of passing. Clinton the economist is fighting the quotas ?- meant to protect U.S. steelmakers from lower-priced foreign steel ?- on compelling grounds: They would almost certainly be a violation of current U.S. trade treaties. And at a time when Clinton pounds the world?s podiums calling for globalization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shock! The President Flashes His Principles | 6/22/1999 | See Source »

...hacked to death, there's an odd bit of dialogue. A roomful of young Hollywood hotties--playing a roomful of Midwestern college hotties--debate whether film violence causes real violence. "It's directly responsible," says the student played by Josh Jackson (Pacey on Dawson's Creek). "That's so Moral Majority," sneers Cici, the coed played by Sarah Michelle Gellar (a.k.a. Buffy the Vampire Slayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking Aim at Show Biz | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

...explain the bottomless public fascination with the story of the Titanic, I wouldn't pin it on the idea that the sunken ship represented a moral tale of hubris or of careless luxury but rather on the fact that it was both a magnificent and flawed piece of work, and that it became most interesting when it was lying out of reach underwater. How to get down to it and bring it to the surface? How to grasp something so wonderful, confident and ruined, a creation as immense as the past...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Greatest Dad in the World | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

...character of Holden Caulfield have been the example of adolescent alienation. Holden's alienation and despair are served up to young minds without much context or perspective. Young people today need a catcher in the rye to keep them from the steep cliffs of nihilism and moral relativism that are sold to them in popular media and in the classroom. Hats off to the youth workers who are catching kids right and left every day before they go over the cliff. PAUL SAILHAMER Fullerton, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 21, 1999 | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

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