Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stirring controversy, the Administration has treated its year-old policy of supporting birth control programs at home and abroad with all the delicacy of a family doctor. An anti-poverty program to distribute contraceptives to unmarried and separated mothers has actually been halted by a bitter argument over its moral and social desirability...
...rather naive form of hubris. But even the more cautious futurists are caught up in a renewed sense of human freedom. "The function of prediction," says Columbia's Daniel Bell, "is not, as often stated, to aid social control, but to widen the spheres of moral choice." And Bertrand de Jouvenel has suggested that various types of future should be portrayed on TV, allowing the public to vote in a referendum on "the future of your choice." The chief message of the futurists is that man is not trapped in an absurd fate but that he can and must...
...class Middle West background and an opportunity for a college education and profession." In light of Psychologist Hawkes's "warnings of dire consequences," the court said it could not send Mark to "an uncertain future in his father's home. We do not believe we have the moral right to gamble with this child's future...
Christian Realism. Ironically, the journal that once condemned Hitler now criticizes the U.S. in its confrontation with Asian Communism. Niebuhr and Bennett say that a nation at times has a "moral obligation" to check power with power, but they advocate a negotiated end to the fighting in Viet Nam, a position that some critics feel is surprisingly akin to the antiwar view the magazine opposed in 1941. "We hope we are still Christian realists," Bennett writes in the anniversary issue, "and that we are as 'realistic' in emphasizing the limited relevance of American military power today...
...altogether first class. Actor Redford, as Bubber, plays a born loser engagingly but cannot quite mask the clear-eyed confidence of a boy born lucky. All three finally flee to a flaming auto junkyard where virtually the entire county converges, brandishing torches, cheap whisky and other unmistakable symbols of moral decay...