Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Keyes' voice resounded loudly and clearly during his bid last year for the Republican presidential nomination. While critics on the left accused him of mixing religion and politics, his conservative backers lauded him for focusing the presidential-campaign lens on the far-reaching effects of America's moral decay...
...course, easier to be the Emperor's conscience than to be the Emperor himself. Lee's challenge after the hand-over is to retain his moral authority yet not use it to provoke the very crackdown he decries. The challenge facing Tung is far tougher. He has the unenviable task of ruling with the mandate of a mistrusted regime and without the popular mandate of the people. He must ensure that Hong Kong will enjoy the "high degree of autonomy" China promised. And he must prove to Beijing that Hong Kong will not become a dangerous base for subversion...
...multiple attempts to find a ring that suited the songstress (now that's our Barbra), she finally said yes. "I definitely believe that if there is a soul connection, it is there right away," Streisand, 55, has said of her nine-month relationship with Brolin. "It's so rare." Moral: People who need people are the luckiest people in the world...
...from first-time novelist Joseph Kanon. Set amid the wartime development of the first atom bomb, the book has been compared to E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime for its intermingling of real and fictional characters. But a more apt comparison might be to the film Chinatown, with its small-scale moral muddles foregrounding grand-scale moral muddles...
Your cover story on the most influential people in the U.S. [THE TIME 25, April 21] was a sad commentary on the direction in which American society is evolving. There was a time when American icons influenced history by their strong moral leadership. Today they are predominantly career bureaucrats, par-tisan activists, shallow entertainers, mediocre musicians, salvation gurus, shock artists and others who make a living dredging the murky depths of society. In a society where the social fabric is frayed and there is little role for human values, any icon that people can cling to seems a good...