Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bathsheba Everdene and her headstrong affair with the no-good Sgt. Troy is set an exact 100 years before Darling. In both films, Miss Christie does wend her way through several men. But in Darling, she was consciously presented as amoral. In the new film, Miss Christie is highly moral, rejecting two suitors because she doesn't love them, foolishly rushing into marriage with the dashing Troy (Terence Stamp), yet apologizing for it a day later, realizing he's rotten but unable to break his hold...
Referring to a meeting Oct. 30 with the signers of a petition asking for collective responsibility, Kerr said, "It was my understanding . . . that the men at the meeting were being denied the right to take responsibility for an act which was of great moral importance for them...
...goes fifty years of zoning, much of which began with the realization that one of the intolerable facts of poverty was the requirement of living in the midst of every known form of industrial ugliness. Twenty centuries of Christianity and we conclude that in a time of moral crisis we will cease work on the most splendid place of worship ever conceived in the city...
Barry for Dick. Rather than allow his brainwash gaffe to sink into oblivion, Romney repeatedly invoked the term, along with his older standbys. Communism and world poverty are not the nation's greatest perils, he said. "The greatest threats are from a decline in moral character, personal responsibility, family life and religion-the things on which American life are based." His speeches were mostly well received, even at the Trunk 'n' Tusk Club in Phoenix, where many Arizona elephants cannot forget his refusal to support Barry Goldwater...
...conduct." In fact, there is scant likelihood that either house will pass anything resembling a workable code of ethics this session. Despite all the demands for a tough code, Congress has dawdled too long to agree on anything so sensitive. Thus, for yet another year, it perpetuates a moral vacuum in which standards of conduct are a matter for the independent judgment of the legislator...