Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present progress was reviewed and supervised and picked apart and weighted with tremendous significance. One extra conversation in a day, one extra act of participation, everything I did was seen by my doctor as progression or regression. The psychology of all my actions took pre-eminence over any moral value that could be imputed to them...
Kistiakowsky also said he tried to follow high moral standards and, at the same time, remain patriotic. "I have tried to make my actions conform to these principles," he said...
...characterization of those who urged support for the Spanish Republic or for Israel while opposing our involvement in Viet Nam as "capricious" is capricious. Only absolute pacifism-or absolute idiocy-would insist that opposition to one war logically requires opposition to all wars, regardless of political or moral considerations. The Spanish Republic was elected by the Spanish people and was defending its right to exist. The Israelis are in a similar situation. We do not know what the Vietnamese think except that those most willing to die for their beliefs seem to be on the other side...
...losing the war," he insists, adding with a flourish of Romneyesque euphuism: "The Viet Nam tail is wagging our global dog." And, in the midst of his political rhetoric, Mormon Romney invariably ticks off a litany of the nation's six "declines": "Decline of religious conviction, moral character, the quality of family life, the principle of individual responsibility, patriotism, and respect...
TELEVISION. A series called One Reach One, created by the Episcopal Radio-TV Foundation, is being shown on stations in 35 U.S. cities. It goes considerably further than other worthy religious programs in examining modern moral problems with the help of frank, uninhibited dialogue and a realism that is almost painful...