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...
...laws will not help. Our attitudes need to be changed. I will not argue whether or not income tax evasion is comparable to violent crime. But the attitude that a little transgression is all right definitely is not healthy and clearly points to this nation's need for moral leadership...
...nine are already appealing six-year federal-prison terms for pouring duck blood on Baltimore draft files. Appeals are also planned against last week's verdict. "It was a defeat from the legal point of view," said Kunstler. "But it was a triumph from the emotional, moral and ethical point of view. I have nothing to regret...
...Teatro Campesino (the Farm Workers' Theater) begins. It does not simply point out evil but demands immediate action to eradicate it. An example of contemporary folk art, the Teatro has traveled the dusty roads of California's San Joachin Valley for three years, giving artistic moral support to the strike of César Chávez's Mexican-American grape pickers. The players encourage a revivalist atmosphere of hand clapping and shouting. "We like to make noise," says Director Valdez, who studied drama at San Jose State College, "because society does not allow us to make...
Still more important, though, is the conflict here between principle and expediency. At what point does a person find himself compelled to say "no" to an expedient (even "reasonable") measure and declare his ethical-moral position? I cannot prescribe a formula for something like this as a doctor might; rather, I am suggesting that (1) there are often cases when a position simply must be taken, fully aware that the consequences may not be very desirable, and (2) there is no doctor; each individual must decide for himself on the proper course of action; no oracle or soothsayer is around...