Word: moralizer
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...traveled to Texas to campaign for Obama—a trip that Zuckerman said was the reason he ultimately decided to take this semester off. The social studies concentrator and Lowell House resident cited government professor Michael J. Sandel—who teaches the perennially popular Moral Reasoning 22: “Justice”—as another key factor in bringing him to this level of political involvement. Zuckerman said that while he takes issue with some aspects of the communitarian ethic that Sandel espouses, the two courses he took with Sandel last year...
...drawn some criticism, suprisingly, for being too saintly and hammy - surprising because what stood out for me in Langella's performance was how bracingly human it is. As the rebellious counselor, Langella is a man of stoic determination, but not without moments of fear, doubt, temper and smugness; his moral courage seems cobbled out of human reason and resolve rather than handed down from God. And if Robert Bolt's 1960 play looks a bit square today, with its period setting and easy-to-follow moral outline, it's beautifully written, clearly argued and, with a lot of help from...
...Senator McCain, who has run an inconsistent and erratic campaign based on the themes of foreign and military policy, has seemed at times, more Bushian than Bush himself. Despite 26 years of Congressional experience, McCain continues to perceive foreign relations as a field where moral absolutes predominate, neatly splitting the world into virtuous friend and despicable...
...Faced with America’s collapsing economy, our unsustainable addiction to foreign oil, our inefficient and inequitable health care system, our forgotten war in Afghanistan and our mistaken war in Iraq, and our declining moral standing in the international community, we cannot afford to throw our hands up and offer the excuse that government cannot solve the problems it helped create...
...donors felt they could accomplish more for gays if they shared information rather than operate as "silo" givers. Some members were frustrated that the established gay movement in Washington hadn't made greater progress in a society rapidly coming to see homosexuality as a mere variation rather than a moral degeneration...