Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is no reason to believe, however, that the House is justified in establishing ad hoc, and unspecified, requirements each time it considers barring a member-elect. When the Senate was debating the exclusion of a Utah polygamist, Sen. Knox of Pennsylvania maintained that moral qualifications should remain the province of the electorate, as it expresses itself at the polls, and insisted that Congress restrict itself to objective criteria. But Congress has excluded such unpopular personages as the polygamist; Victor Berger, a Wisconsin Socialist opposed to American participation in World War I; and assorted sympathizers with the South during...
...colleague who has acted wrongly once elected. The power of expulsion is lumped together in the Constitution with each chamber's right to "punish its members for disorderly behavior," suggesting that it is intended to protect the regular operation of each session of Congress rather than to impose any moral judgments. Hence the lack of specified grounds for expulsion...
...objective facts" include consequences. Despite Superintendent Cook's well-taken strictures against moralizing, the shapers of the Anaheim program were obviously interested in morality and social values. Cook, who used to teach the course himself, tells how it tries to prepare both sexes for the "traps" of dating. The message to the boys is that they need not make a pass at a girl to prove themselves masculine, and to the girls that they need not say yes to remain popular. Says Cook: "We try to give them answers for all the old con games." Without explicit moralizing...
There is a growing suspicion that too much may be expected of sex education and that the programs, no matter how sound, are asked to provide solutions to moral problems that are really part of the society. Today's adolescents, Dr. Calderone points out, are without the defenses that once shielded the young. "The adults," she says, "have allowed all the protective barriers to go down. We have done away with chaperons, supervision, rules, close family relations, and privacy from the intrusion of the communications media. We have left our children totally vulnerable to the onslaughts of the commercial...
...pacifist living with a woman, who takes a stand against what war does, can reach a higher state of moral consciousness than, say, a businessman who is faithful to his wife, yet never thinks about his nation's right to inflict cruelties against the Viet Cong...