Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much as anyone, it was Castro himself who ensured Che's defeat by leaving him to wander in Bolivia with neither the proper material nor moral support. James ascribes that betrayal to their longstanding rivalry. Had Che succeeded in leading a continental revolution, he would have emerged the greater leader, and might well have jeopardized Castro's future position. For his part, Che, as the apostle of Communist revolution in Latin America, had little choice but to go to Bolivia. Concludes James: "He needed a revolution far more than the revolution needed...
...major powers will continue to test one another's will and strength indirectly on distant battlefields. The authors believe this may be more of a strain on the U.S. than on the U.S.S.R. "Americans tend to look on war as a great moral struggle and are apt to be more receptive to the idea of outlawing it than of merely restricting it. If a war does not involve some high and all-encompassing ideal such as freedom, democracy, a war to end war, Americans are reluctant to go into it . . . To the Communist nations, limited war has an altogether...
Demos, who taught at Harvard from 1919 to 1962, was Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Policy, emeritus. For many years, he taught a lower-level course in "Philosophy from Plato to William James." He was editor of "Complete Works of Plato" in 1936, and author of "The Philosophy of Plato...
...much has happened since then. Decrees of the Second Vatican Council, although not explicity endorsing contraception, strongly defended the principle of responsible parenthood and the right of couples to decide for themselves the size of their families. A clear majority of the church's most articulate moral theologians-sometimes with the approving support of their bishops-have publicly argued that couples can licitly practice birth control for reasons of health or economic hardship. The Pope's own commission on the subject in 1966 voted 70 to 14 in favor of relaxing the church's stand on contraception...
...Warren Court has performed as moral preceptor pretty well," McCloskey said. "When Warren's term began, the American constitutional house was in a surprisingly primitive state ... the Supreme Court under Warren has remodeled it extensively, and, I think, wisely. It has helped bring America, kicking and screaming, into the 20th century, and if we haven't quite made it, it's not the Court's fault...