Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fairbank writes that the Chinese have traditionally emphasized moral principles, not legal processes, and "they are more accustomed to government by elites who invoke these moral principles and values, and to mediation of disputes by third parties and upper class figures...
...ruler is shown up as stupid, foolish, ineffective, or evil, Fairbank maintains, then the moral basis of his authority is undermined and he may lose power...
...silent in this crisis, or that the American white people are congenitally immoral and so bankrupt that it is futile even to try to bring about change. I don't believe this, but not because I think that a large number of Americans are going to get more moral. They are simply going to get more intelligent...
...nice to his guests." Geisel wrote about "star-bellied Sneetches," who thought they were better than "plain-bellied Sneetches," to score points against prejudice. He does not mind being called "the greatest moralist since Elsie Dinsmore," contends that it is both right and inevitable that "you can find a moral in anything you read...
...will draw a sizeable vote today is Jimmy Swan, a country singer and radio-station owner. Swan is the only candidate to undertake an unrestricted campaign of racism and paranoia, thus undercutting former Governor Ross Barnett's support. Swan proposes "free, private segregated schools" to save Mississippi "from the moral degeneracy of total mass integration that Washington has decreed for our children this fall." He says that to grant equality to the Negro is to make savagery the equal of civilization. "Communists are right here among us," he declares. Swan should receive 10-15 per cent of the vote...