Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While this is hardly a picture of the typical American family, it does represent a pressing moral problem that has been largely obscured by the more dramatic issues of war, sex and civil rights. The problem is the erosion of Everyman's conscience about how he conducts his everyday life in less spectacular areas. A nation's ethical climate is made up of small, half-automatic decisions taken by ordinary people in response to life's daily bumps and urgings. That climate in the U.S. today seems far from salubrious...
...Moral Breakdowns. As a prologue to Shantung Compound, Gilkey approvingly quotes Brecht's sardonic couplet: "For even saintly folk will act like sinners,/Unless they have their customary dinners." To his surprise, Gilkey discovered that the most devout missionaries were not immune from selfishness. Even ministers began to squabble with their fellow prisoners bout food shares and steal from communal supplies. Forgetting the lesson of the Good Samaritan, missionaries with families bluntly refused to share any portion of their living area with others who needed space. One preacher went so far as to contend that he needed extra room...
...black rule, and many are now beset by shattering tribal conflicts. But nowhere has the violence of one race against another reached the proportions of the apartheid of South Africa. It is not the bloody violence of hurled bricks and broken bones, but it is violence nonetheless-the moral violence of oppression imposed by a dominating minority. To most of the world, South Africa is the very symbol of racial conflict...
...most counts. The son of a rabbi, he was born in the former East Prussian capital of Konigsberg, educated in Britain, and served for a decade as Ireland's chief rabbi before coming to the U.S. in 1958. In Ireland, some British Jews recall, his advice on moral issues amounted to "the rabbi says you mustn't"; in the U.S., however, he is counted among the modern Orthodox leaders who seek to accommodate Halacha to contemporary issues. An expert on medical ethics, he frowns on contraception, points to the low birth rate among Jews, and fears that Judaism...
...incredible distance of polar ice. Has he been brainwashed? The sinister Admiral Lille, chief of naval intelligence, seems to think so, and the reader may well decide, despite Aldridge, that the old sea dog is right. There is a great deal of top-level muckraking about the malevolent moral dwarfs who operate international finance-capitalism; it is possibly the least convincing stuff since Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd went crusading for a better world amid the corrupt chancelleries of Europe...