Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...board. Moreover, most CCA members are middle or upper class people whose main incentive for joining was the intangible desire to "promote honest, efficient government," as a CCA phamphlet explains. These people don't like to take orders; they prefer to follow the logic of their own moral or political position...
Along with supposing that liberalism stopped at the water's edge--except as liberals might be more intelligent in fighting the Cold War--we have also been far too ready to believe that we could have one set of moral standards abroad and another at home. That is not true either...
Against my better judgment, I like Julie Andrews, but she's making it increasingly difficult. Except for The Americanization of Emily, her taste in motion picture properties has proved less than sterling (Pace, the magazine of Moral Rearmament, to the contrary...
Catholics & Conscience. The pill poses two grave moral problems. The first affects Roman Catholics and, for different theological reasons, the smaller number of Orthodox Jews. Not until 1930 did the Vatican modify the Augustinian rule that sex must be for procreation, when Pope Pius XI approved the rhythm method. The Vatican has banned all mechanical and chemical contraception. But Dr. Rock, an unswerving Catholic, has been arguing ever since he sired the pill that its use imitates nature-which occasionally, but only occasionally, makes a woman skip ovulation-and that it should therefore be approved by the Vatican...
...Takes Character." The second moral problem posed by the pills relates to the unmarried. Does the convenient contraceptive promote promiscuity? In some cases, no doubt it does-as did the automobile, the drive-in movie and the motel. But the consensus among both physicians and sociologists is that a girl who is promiscuous on the pill would have been promiscuous without it. The more mature of the unmarried in the Now Generation say that, far from promoting promiscuity, the pills impose a sense of responsibility. Formerly, many a young woman rejected premarital relations specifically because of her fear of pregnancy...