Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Freedom from any such pressure has blinded the nonvoters to a key point. A leader can shape the country's moral choices by taking a no-compromise stand on a great issue, such as the Viet Nam war. Both McCarthy and Lyndon Johnson did just that, risking their political careers in the process. But voters have a different role: to convey their positions through the ballot, the most effective weapon they have. A conscientious citizen can hardly pass off that role easily. Surely the U.S. right not to vote, or to write in sure losers, also carries with...
...hunger for a presidential hero, an exciting idealist (or at least simplifier), who could strip down the era's complexities and articulate a national vision. What frustrated voters may overlook is the fact that great Presidents have generally been more pragmatic than idealistic. Lincoln stayed aloof from the moral absolutes of the abolitionists-and he, not they, abolished slavery. In this sense, an undecided voter might well focus on the candidate who seems most capable of putting together a viable political coalition, working with Congress, mobilizing interest groups and making the country move...
...lasted to this day. Basically, the problem is one of attitude. In the face of threats from the "power brokers," Lindsay asserts principle; labor leaders call it inflexibility and priggishness. "It's this upper-white-class Protestant ethic that gives him a feeling of moral superiority," says Martin Morgenstern, head of the Social Service Employes Union. "He's like the white knight come to save...
...higher education put forward by a new self-study report of the emphatically non-Marxist University of Oklahoma. Published this month, the document argues that it is time for universities to abandon the ideal of aloof scholarship that analyzes but never commits to action, that describes but never defines moral values. The true goal of the university is to become "passionately involved in questions of spiritual and moral values in the real world...
Mother is Nada Romanov, "a minor but famous writer" who collects lovers. Father is a high-trapeze-act executive, swinging smoothly from one corporation vice-presidency to another. Both are moral and parental failures. But both, like Richard, are victims as well as executioners...