Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deceiving girls and making them become prostitutes." Reflecting the public uproar, the Thai Cabinet two weeks ago ordered that the clusters of bars, bordellos and massage parlors that have sprung up alongside U.S. military installations be removed to less conspicuous locations so that they will no longer bring "moral and social decline to the people...
...regulate." He also pointed out that New York's "prohibition does not bar parents who so desire from purchasing the magazines for their children." As to whether or not girlie magazines and similar material actually impair-in the words of New York's law-"the ethical and moral development of youth," Brennan concluded that scientific evidence had neither proved nor disproved that point. Since the court does not require that legislatures have "scientifically certain criteria for legislation," there are no grounds for a finding that the New York law "has no rational relation to the objective of safeguarding...
...Fifth Commandment, "Thou shall not kill," and for the careless driver he quotes St. Thomas Aquinas' stern dictum on carelessness: "He who allows certain events to happen which result in homicide by imprudence becomes guilty in a certain manner of premeditated homicide." The author even invokes the moral logic of Matthew 5: 28-"Everyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart"-as making traffic violations sinful even if no smashup results. For example, contends Renard, "the motorist who gets ready to pass another without having verified whether...
Love-Hate. For Disney, nostalgia was an article of faith in the moral superiority of the good old days. Throughout his career, he projected "images of longing"-from the barnyard and smalltown settings for many of Mickey Mouse's antics to the entrance of Disneyland, which compels visitors to pass through a turn-of-the-century Midwestern Main Street, "an idealized vision of Disney's boyhood environment...
FREE and voluntary debate is the essence of the University. Compulsory inquisition is not, and neither are mechanisms to determine which organizations fit under a certain moral umbrella that some number wants to prop up for all. A policy of open recruitment may seem to some a passive condonement of certain moral qualities. But can it be anything but worse to respond by specifically decreeing the moral qualities that must be observed here...