Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition, McCarthy said, "there is growing evidence of a deepening moral crisis in America-discontent and frustration and a disposition to take extralegal if not illegal actions to manifest protest. I am hopeful that this challenge may alleviate at least in some degree this sense of political helplessness and restore to many people a belief in the processes of American politics and of American government...
Caterwaul & Caricature. The war has sundered the moral and political life of the U.S. as deeply as any crisis in this century. Within both major parties politicians have at least had a traditional forum from which to endorse or denounce the course of U.S. policy. Not so with the nation's private citizens who are critical of the war. Lacking an organized, effectual medium through which to voice their protests, dissenters ranging from Maoists to hippies, from middle-aged suburbanites in SANE to adolescent hotspurs in the Students for a Democratic Society have stormed Pentagon and draft board, marched...
...Churchill: Churchill is a fighter, but not a true statesman. And then whisky clouds his moral sense...
Since he took office, Volpe has repeatedly spoken of a "moral commitment" to the construction of the Library in Cambridge. But now, by making a legislative commitment as well, Volpe is "taking the ball and running with it," in the words of a Library official...
...need a stable moral law," he said, "and the law, as it exists now," protects life. There is a right to be born...