Word: moralizers
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...lattes, Charles Manson with Gary Condit, and Woodstock with Survivor. It's a response that is both self-loathing (smacking of the Falwellian idea that we somehow brought disaster on our frivolous selves) and comforting (if so much was taken from us, shouldn't we get a sense of moral superiority in return?). It's also, in one important way, wrong. Of course our collective near-death experience changed many of us. But if our popular artists know anything about us, we were ready to change long before...
...truth, the New Paradigm is the way Americans are sharpening their wits in the presence of great danger. It is the reinstatement of an older model--a pre-Vietnam perspective. You hear that reinstated moral design in Bush's quaint--and artful--use of the word evil. He speaks of "the evil ones" and "the evildoers"--and at first it sounds like the vocabulary of professional wrestling. But Bush means to tell the evil ones that he is as willing as they are to deal in absolutes. The Old Paradigm dismisses the concept of evil as being an ignorant demonization...
...Last Castle that depicted an upside-down flag (though in the film, it's merely a sign of distress). Scott toned down some of the explosions in Spy Game. "Right now the scrambling [in the movie industry] has to do with, Is it gonna sell or not?" says Redford. "Moral concerns are overwhelmed by a larger concern, which is business. If this is a sustained mood in the country, then you'll see a reduction of violence. The business will shift to whatever sells...
Yale scored just before halftime, kicking a 20-yard field goal as time expired in the first half. But even that was a moral victory for Harvard...
Yale scored just before halftime, kicking a 20-yard field goal as time expired in the first half. But even that was a moral victory for Harvard...