Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Director Penn treats with matter-of-factness a situation in which two people can be deeply in love, worry about the health of an aged mother, feel the responsibility of kinship and yet find no moral context for the idea of murder. The law for Bonnie and Clyde is merely the agent of a hostile universe. Clyde's gun, which so mesmerizes Bonnie when she first sees it, is the only potency they possess in the face of total anonymity. But it is, for a time, a very real potency, and Penn refuses to flinch at this fact. The script...
...that ravishes their fellows. He saw in his lifetime and accumulated in his work more than enough evidence of the paradox. His legacy is not, as he was himself painfully aware, a solution. "Social science," he wrote, "lags far behind medical and physical science. It lags too behind the moral sense of mankind...
...HALL OF MIRRORS, by Robert Stone. A first novel about three castoffs of American society who come to rest in New Orleans. Author Stone has achieved a rare combination of humor, despair and moral wrath...
...OPERATIONAL NECESSITY, by Gwyn Griffin. Novelist Griffin specializes in dramas that pit military discipline against moral imperative, and this World War II sea story is his best...
...student from the derogation of applied work that is so ubiquitous in the academic departments of the graduate school. The graduate departments tend to define their problems from within, even though they may get their funds from without, and tend to look down upon students with too direct a moral imperative, as well as too roving an intellectual eye. Thus in principle the law schools could become even more than at present locales for training in applied social science. Both the pressure and the possibility to move in this direction will come, I suggest, in part from that small group...