Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is a bedraggled familiarity and truth in the moral landscape limned by Corson. The betrayed are the widows of Vietnamese whose pay is stolen by the district chief, the civilians fleeing the war's fury who are left hungry while officials fatten on their rice rations, the people of hamlets pillaged by South Vietnamese soldiers there to "liberate" them. Also betrayed, as Corson sees it, are the U.S. fighting men killed by an enemy in arms against Saigon's injustices while the U.S.'s Vietnamese allies idle in barracks or wax rich as laundrymen, garbage collectors...
...Charles Laughton receives his check in the mail, goes to the president of his company, sticks out his tongue and delivers a loud Bronx cheer. Blackout. In those precarious years, the vicarious thrill of giving a razz to the boss was irresistible-to say nothing of the complex moral that a nobody can suddenly acquire the money that can't buy happiness...
...DeMott, this emotional response constitutes a severe case of overkill: "Fits of fury that plucked out eyes from severed heads." It is as if, speculates DeMott, "fury seemed a possible substitute for moral clarity and worth...
...trying to protect these boys," says the Rev. Harold R. Fray Jr., a United Church of Christ pastor who heads Massachusetts' Committee of Religious Concern for Peace. "We are not harboring them against the law. What we are doing is setting up a platform where their ethical and moral convictions can be made public." Adds the Rev. A. Finley Schaef, a hip-talking Methodist pastor in Greenwich Village: "This is a conscience thing, and that is what the church is concerned about, the conscience...
...been fading from the sight of young America. We hear the word 'irrelevant' so often it makes us wince. It is good, in a strange way, to know that in the minds or maybe just in the memories of youth, a church is still a sign of moral force...