Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MAKING GOOD AGAIN, by Lionel Davidson. A suspense novel explores the tangled lives and moral problems involved in the payment of reparations to families persecuted by the Nazis...
...1960s began with a summons to national excellence and moral grandeur. Eight years later, Americans are divided, dispirited and disillusioned. The 1968 presidential campaign might have reawakened the quest for greatness. Instead, the electorate's fears have dominated everything. Equally fearful of losing, the candidates have failed to articulate any new sense of national purpose and direction...
...Whatever military reasons he and others could marshal," he recalls, "they were nevertheless, in the last analysis, advocating a surprise attack by a very large nation against a very small one. This, I said, could not be undertaken by the U.S. if we were to maintain our moral position at home and around the globe. Our struggle against Communism throughout the world was far more than physical survival-it has as its essence our heritage and our ideals, and these we must not destroy...
Paranoid Profession The stirring of Madison Avenue's social conscience is still tentative and, to say the least, tardy. Appraising his industry's role in the "great moral issue of our time," Ogilvy & Mather Chairman John Elliott Jr. confesses that "our record is not even average. We bring up the rear. That is a hell of a position for people who consider themselves problem solvers, pacesetters and molders of public opinion." It is also a hell of a position for businessmen. Last year, Negroes spent $30 billion on consumer items, or 6% of the national total...
Such a statement is repugnant in its moral absolutism: It is anti-democratic in principle and seems to sanction any action to prevent a Harvard student from participating in ROTC...