Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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RIGHT & WRONG, by Paul Weiss and Jonathan Weiss. A dialogue between a father and son attempting to resolve problems of ethics and moral philosophy...
While applauding the moral concern of the educational critics, Havighurst added that unwary readers of their widely publicized views "get little pieces of reality without seeing the whole complex reality." The baleful picture creates a public disillusionment, which in turn creates a defensiveness on the part of teachers, which in turn complicates solutions to the real problems of the city schools. What is needed, said Havighurst, is "a moratorium on purely negative criticism of the public schools...
Paul Cowan's article raises one over-riding issue; the role of the committed man in an imperfect world. Only for those who fight in Vietnam today, or with equal full time vigor oppose the war, is the moral stance toward peace quite clean. But what of the committed Volunteer in an imperfect Peace Corps, the Vista Volunteer beneath a bigoted mayor, believers in peace in a time of war? All face the dilemma of hippiedom, the choice between the scars of participation and the righteousness of abstention. All must ask if progress toward peace is advanced or retarded...
...ironic that President Pusey, who undoubtedly takes sincere pride in his own commitment to moral principles, should be attacked on these grounds. It is also a revealing testimony as to how badly his communication with students has deteriorated
Pope-Hennessy, authorized biographer of Queen Mary, grandson and biographer (Verandah) of a British colonial governor, is not a formal historian; his book is a stark, sometimes emotional act of moral scrutiny. From brutal start to finish, he documents the slave traders' operation as a "vast complex of international crime." Captains' letters, half-literate journals, freed slaves' memoirs-all the available primary sources are meticulously assayed, not so much to show how the slave trade operated as to try to explain...