Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...barbarous slaughtering of innocents), and dishonor the noble flag under which millions have been and are being saved from tyranny for the fourth time this century-one can only marvel in alarm at the subtle efficiency with which international Communism has succeeded in corrupting the thinking and moral fiber of so many and enlisting them in a cause against themselves...
Probably the toughest question about sex education is whether it should be straight information or have moral direction. "Adults sure have different goals," observed one New York teen-ager in a recent survey. "They don't look at sex education as teaching us to understand sex. They look at it as a way of controlling our morals." And a lot of them do. Says Anaheim School Superintendent Paul Cook: "As soon as you start to lecture the kids, they turn you off. They just won't listen to people telling them what to do. We try to just...
...heroes, literary or otherwise, or are very clear about what they seek in poetry. Says Mount Holyoke Poet and History Professor Peter Viereck: students "crave the ever more shocking and ever more new. They are looking more for emotional release than purely artistic merit." Verse for edification or moral uplift; he adds, "is totally dead. A poem like Tennyson's Merlin and the Gleam would be the laughingstock of a coffeehouse today...
...test this theory, Lowell threw his powerful but ill-coordinated body into football. The theory was sound: he won his letter as tackle. "It was more will power than love of the game," says Parker. "It was his way of exercising the moral imperative." But would the theory be valid for poetry...
...President should seriously consider sanctioning by law conscientious objection to particular wars. The arguments against such particular objections, like those raised last Sunday by University Preacher Charles Price, are not convincing. Price contended that there is no "principle" involved in objecting solely to the Vietnamese war. But certainly the moral aversion to fighting anything but aggression is as much a "principle" as objection to fighting itself. And deciding what constitutes fighting is as much a matter of "interpretation" as deciding what constitutes aggression...