Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...being and feeling. Some playgoers insist that they hate and cannot comprehend these modern plays. The playwrights counter that this hate is what Oscar Wilde described as "the rage of Caliban at seeing his own face." No doubt, they are reporting as honestly as they know how on a moral wasteland. But it is a selected part of the terrain of life, and selection implies exclusion...
Vile Appetites. The place with the wildest reputation is Ocean City, which was founded by Methodist clergymen in the late 19th century as "a moral seaside resort which must be run in the interests of our holy Christianity." Ocean City still bans alcoholic beverages ("We cannot pander to vile appetites or propensities"), but just two miles across the causeway is Somers Point-and it has 18 bars. After sunning all day at Ocean City and partying all night at Somers Point, the conclusion is frequently sexual. Says Ann Williams, a 23-year-old medical technician: "The kids think nothing...
...movie affords a first look at a brilliant and, yes, revolutionary work. The dialogue and subject matter constitute a complete abortion of the Hollywood production code. And since Warner Bros. succeeded in getting a seal of approval despite obvious violations, Virginia Woolf may indicate another change in Hollywood's moral climate...
...comb through lyrics like cryptographers. What they have found is a spate of new songs dealing with all kinds of taboo topics, many of which, veiled in hip teen talk or garbled in the din of guitars, are being regularly aired over the radio. POP MUSIC'S 'MORAL CRISIS,' screamed the front-page headline in Variety recently; Dylan discipes countered by adopting a line from his new Ballad of a Thin Man as their nose-thumbing rallying cry: "Something is happening here, and you don't know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones?" What...
Ample Reason. But what about Schmerber's contention that the whole procedure abridged his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and his Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure? The Fifth, answered Brennan, only prohibits "the use of physical or moral compulsion to extort communications" from a person. It does not exclude the "body as evidence when it may be material." Lie-detector tests, Brennan went on, might very well be improper because they involve questioning and verbal testimony...