Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...white painting with the words You Are Here neatly lettered in black, certainly is more playful than the Sistine Chapel. (It was done this summer in London by John Lennon and his new mistress.) It is a kind of art that seems to ignore or to have moved beyond moral considerations (which is in part what makes it so infuriating for a criticism which is still involved with moral standards and Matthew Arnolds' How to Live...
This attitude towards moral considerations--the child so involved in a game that he does not notice its consequences on the "real world" outside the world of the game--gives us a clue towards the origins of this kind of consciousness. We can approach it, I think, if we imagine a child playing, totally involved, and then imagine an adult playing at that game, or at some game adults consider equaly childish like painting, writing, or Rock and Roll. The artist develops a kind of dual consciousness totally involved and serious with one part of his mind, very detached...
Leading the Left requires a new talent. The people on the Left have usually worked out the complexities of the issues in their own minds; they need to be stirred to action. So Rudd's self-contradictions often are buried in his complex grammar as he jabs his listeners' moral emotions...
Even before the white backlash set in, a number of other factors had conspired to make the Southern "racial situation" less visible than it had been in the '50's. After the civil rights acts passed in the early '60's, most Northern whites breathed a sigh of moral relief. Most of the tangible evidences of bigotry were gone: federal inspectors found few "Colored" drinking fountains left. The "White Only" posters were reluctantly removed from the train stations and busses; the black names made their way onto the voting lists; and whites and blacks settled down to the teeth-gritting...
...theme of the Third Harvard Divinity School Colloquium this spring will be "Moral Responsibility in the University," Krister Stendahl, Dean of the Divinity School, announced Wednesday...