Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Defense Secretary McNamara [July 8] is a monstrous man, catalyst for the fusion of U.S. industrial and military might into an instrument designed for world hegemony and destined for moral and material perdition. Can't a voice be raised in support of the ideals on which this nation was founded and nurtured for almost two centuries...
Some other Catholic theologians agree with Lepp's proposal. In the same issue of Marriage, Benedictine Father Dennis Doherty, who specializes in moral theology, suggests that the church might find a way out of the dilemma by redefining what it means by a valid marriage. According to canon law, a marriage is valid if it has been properly witnessed and then consummated sexual ly. If some essential requisite in the sacrament is missing, the couple may later be able to gain an annulment, which means in effect that the marriage was null and void from the beginning.* Divorce...
...others, the Frodo saga represents a way to escape the mundane realities of life. "I'd like to live in the hobbit world because this world is so foul," says Marilyn Nulman, who works at the Harvard bookstore. Another enthusiast likes the Rings' old-fashioned moral simplicity: "You cheer the hero and boo the villain." Whatever the reasons, Frodo seems here to stay. As one mother put it when she bought the trilogy for her freshman daughter, "Going to college without Tolkien is like going without sneakers...
...city, town and village across the vast plains, students last week burned the midnight oil as they crammed for university entrance exams. Providing moral support, their parents besieged admissions officers with pleading telegrams, desperately sought out the help of influential friends in politics or government. Doctors suddenly found themselves busy trying to stamp out an epidemic of youthful exhaustion and nervous tension...
...under 25. Equally encouraging to the evangelist was his discovery that public indifference to England's churches did not mean a revolt "against God, or against religion, the Bible, or Christ." England, Billy declared, has a "widespread interest in religion," and may be on the verge of a "moral and spiritual revival...