Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kennan called for a return to policy making which more clearly defined national interests, and avoided moral pretensions. He criticized the practice of justifying Vietnam policy in legalistic and moralistic terms such as "opposing aggression," and "fighting for freedom...
Protest Letter. The strike meanwhile precipitated some more moral wrestling among newsmakers and newsmen. Dean Rusk and Kenneth Galbraith, new head of the Americans for Democratic Action, discreetly canceled scheduled appearances on public-affairs shows, while Senator Wayne Morse passed through the AFTRA picket line to go on ABC's Scope. Bennett Cerf, who is both a union member (panelist on What's My Line?) and a management man (board member of RCA), elected, of course, not to picket...
...laced his speech with stories of women who had become pregnant through ignorance of birth control methods and with such slogans as "those who take chances are called...parents." He continually stressed the moral aspects of his crusade to change birth control laws, asking "what right does the law have to step into your bedrooms and dictate morality...
Firstly, they did show a decrease in the acceptance of the moral principles of Roman Catholicism as the best guide in life. This could be taken to indicate some success in the Party's efforts at eradication of old values and the instilling of new. Other evidence contrary to this trend, however, shows that in Czechoslovakia, for example, "the students have a tendency to derive general moral rules from religious ethics or from bourgeois humanism, and to apply them as criteria for history ..." at the expense of "communist morality...
...choice, rather, is for individual issues, one or a few at a time. Issues with a high moral content are preferred--like those involving equality, freedom and peace. Intellect, like ideology, is suspect. Morality, instead, is substituted. Facts, history, analysis, theory are often considered more impediments than aids...