Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have visited the poorest slums of the republic and recommend the same visit to the people who examine the population problem above all from the moral point of view. What can we say of the frequent incest; of the primitive sexual experiences; of the miserable treatment of children; of the terrible proliferation of prostitution of children of both sexes; of frequent abortion; of almost animal union because of alcohol ic excesses...
...freedom is the more radical for the single girl. Because of her increased economic competence and society's more permissive moral standards, today's swinging single is free in a myriad of ways her mother never dreamed of-freer morally from the restraints of home and the strictures of religion, freer economically from dependence on family allowance, freer geographically from the confines of the home town, and freer sexually through her increased security against unwanted pregnancy. Today's maiden is often assumed to be less concerned with being chaste than being chased-and caught, perhaps often-before...
...generous tribute, Robert Lowell called Jarrell "a Wordsworth with the obsessions of Lewis Carroll." He focused his poet's eye on a central moral problem of the age, which might be called the Eichmann syndrome, and expressed it in bitter doggerel...
...regents of the University of California last week rejected Governor Ronald Reagan's plan to levy a tuition charge a year from now, then turned around to endorse an unspecified increase in student fees. As a result, both Reagan and his opponents among the regents could claim a moral victory-but it was also clear that tuition at the state university is still an extremely touchy issue in politically volatile California...
...prostitute; Rainey is a physically repellent welfare worker who gets chased off the streets by the very people he is trying to help. All three become ruinously involved with a right-wing tycoon who controls several top city officials and now wants to lead a cryptofascist "moral" crusade. Stone's theme is the inextricable grip of the underworld on its inhabitants; he draws a sure-handed diagram of brutal power and its victims...