Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...entirely of vaudeville krauts and British louts whose follies have been chronicled in a thousand previous service comedies. In a conclusion telegraphed from the beginning, Bates, who has miraculously saved the town from destruction, sheds his army uniform, and appears naked at the gate of the asylum. The timeworn moral: the inanities of lunatics are preferable to the insanities of armies...
...others are not. And as the force of their commitments may chance to coincide with each other's and with some formal statement within the Confession, the dynamic qualities of a manifesto become associated with the Confession. Confessional language says, "Everyone should tell the truth" and "There is no moral issue more urgently confronting our church and nation than the war in Vietnam. The hour is late; the church dare not remain silent. We must declare our conscience." The language of manifesto says, "This...
...observation about moral superiority and the self in the world that needs reconciling and adjusting requires that the Presbyterian Church be described before describing its confessional call to deal with race, peace, poverty...
...mockery of reconciliation and offers no acceptable worship to God...The church comes under the judgment of God and invites rejection by man when it fails to lead men and women into the full meaning of life together, or withholds the compassion of Christ from those caught in the moral confusion of our time...
...quite open about what they are doing. Ray Mungo, a member of the group, describes their activities in these terms: "We are unabashedly using every means possible to inhabit, retard, and be dishonest with the Selective Service System...Our position has been philosophically anarchistic. That is, we make no moral judgements about why a kid wants out. If he wants out, we get him out the best...