Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heikki Lampela is a strikingly handsome 25-year-old Finn with a magnificent square jaw and a massive smile that takes up his whole face. It branches out from his mouth in squared-off semi-circles, and it seems to light him up. Lampela, like most Moral Re-Armament people, is nearly always smiling. But after the Sing-Out show in Sanders Theatre he was not smiling at all. And he had reasons...
...Sanders stage while his 40-man tech crew took down the lights and the platforms. Below him swirled little groups of MRA singers arguing their doctrine with Harvard students and Cliffies. It is a simple doctrine. MRA wants to change the character of man, using "absolute moral standards as a compass in personal and national life." There are the four absolutes--love, purity, honesty, and unselfishness. But MRA is not an ideology and not a religion. That is clear from the literature, which the Sing-Out Kids and their leaders readily quote: "It is not a religion nor a substitute...
...council that in many ways answered the Reformation demands upon it, Roman Catholicism frequently seems like a ship that has lost its rudder in high seas: almost every week a priest defects and marries, a theologian challenges defined dogma, new evidence appears that laymen are putting aside authority-given moral guidance to take a stand, Luther-like, as conscience dictates...
...main theme of Elon's book is the ambiance of "moral schizophrenia" regarding the guilt for Germany's past. In West Germany it is always "they," the Hitler government, who committed the crimes; in East Germany it is always "they," the present West German government, who are assigned the guilt...
Only the intellectuals, artists and the press, Elon believes, seem to be aware of the magnitude of the moral problem confronting Germany. Few others express concern that in West Germany former Nazis still occupy many government posts and that in East Germany former Nazis still hold responsible positions in the army. Elon concedes that no people can go on feeling guilty forever; still, he is pained at the philistinism he finds among West German politicians, who seem determined to blank out the past. But he admires the attitude expressed by Catholic Writer Heinrich Boll (The Clown). "The sum of suffering...