Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Adolf von Thadden, the party's Prussian-born leader, pushes the idea that Germany should get back all the land that it lost after World War II, rejects the notion of German war guilt and wants the U.S. to get out of Europe. He calls for a massive "moral regeneration" to lift Germany to what he considers its rightful place in the world. From a dingy set of offices above a restaurant in Hanover, Von Thadden runs a slickly professional organization that has its own newspaper and 470 chapters throughout West Germany...
...kids to take out garbage please change it. Maurice." Requests can also be quite sweeping: "Dear holy God: Would you make it so there would not be any more wars? And so everyone could vote. Also every body should have a lot of fun. Nancy." Still other letters demand moral support for quite personal problems. "Dear God, Do you let your children stay up for Get Smart. I have to know. Linda." Several of the small fry pose questions that defy convincing theological answers: "Dear God, Charles my cat got run over. And if you made it happen you have...
Unlike some of the physicists who helped produce the atomic bomb, Fieser has no moral qualms about his role in producing one of modern warfare's most fearful weapons: "I have no right to judge the morality of napalm just because I invented it." Nor does he blame the Dow Chemical Co. for manufacturing napalm: "If the Government asked them to take a contract, and they're the best ones in a position to do so, then they're obliged...
...slow and disciplined camera-work, though impeccably framed and lit, sometimes lacks the conviction to make it more than simply illustrative. Nonetheless, in the second half, beginning with the beach sequence, L'Etranger becomes a tour de force of subjective camerawork. It uses the zoom lens to juxtapose the moral postures of the different characters, and create a monstrous and disordered world around the anti-hero. Visconti must have chosen to film L'Etranger for strange reasons. He is plainly more interested in the dramatic mechanics of the preposterous trail then in the all-important meditations of the prison cell...
Columbia University's Richard Morris disputes the view of a good many historians that the American Revolution was merely a colonial struggle for independence. Morris sees the events of 1776-1783 as not only ending England's hegemony but also giving birth to a moral, social and intellectual revolution that is still continuing. "From its inception," Morris writes, "the American Revolution was pitched on a moral plane. The patriots were concerned not only about mankind's good opinion, but, as Tom Paine felicitously phrased it, believed it to be in their power 'to make a world...