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Word: moralizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senate hearings confirmed President Johnson's belief that nothing short of a premature pullout from Viet Nam will pacify the pacifiers. The hard-core critics of his foreign policy, concluded a White House aide, "are insatiable. They will not accept the legal argument, the political argument, the moral argument or the military argument. They want out." And that, Lyndon Johnson maintains, is the one argument he will not buy at any price. Last week, more determinedly than ever, he said it again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: No Exit | 2/25/1966 | See Source »

...sympathetic to the problems of their sisters. We need political power.' American women, she says, are treated with universal condescension. She talked with women law students as if they were new members of the Special Forces undertaking their first Vietcong reconnaissance. "It takes courage, real physical and moral courage, to aspire to full dignit," she told them. "Aspire, again," she said. "No little girl wants to be a millionaire or even an astronaut...

Author: By Linda G. Mcveigh, | Title: Betty Freidan | 2/24/1966 | See Source »

...That Flesh-Eating Beast." All jaw and sophistical truth-aches is what ails The Condemned of Altona, at Lincoln Center's Beaumont Theater. Jean-Paul Sartre loves to play moral dentist to his time, and this play is his low-speed drill for making everyone cringe with guilt. An aged German shipping tycoon (George Coulouris) is dying of throat cancer, and he wants to get hand-on-the-Bible oaths of dynastic fealty from his daughter and two sons. Immured in an upstairs room, the elder son, Frantz, has not been seen by his father for 1 3 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: The Unfabulous Invalid | 2/18/1966 | See Source »

Armah indulges in an over-simplified historical approach to describe the ideology of the "White Man's Burden." An unequal conflict is depicted between the Britisher, "arrogant, triumphant, an industrial success," who attributes his prosperity to "biological and moral superiority," and the African, who from 1828-1875 was "not only weak, but throughly demoralized and degraded by the slave trade...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: The Harvard Journal of Negro Affairs | 2/16/1966 | See Source »

...almost impossible to be both a political citizen and a moral man," he said. "But Spain has found the worse solution--to suppress both. To renounce politics is to accept the Establishment and become a passive citizen. To renounce ethics is to lose respect for one's own human dignity. Somehow we must reassert these things together...

Author: By Robert A. Rafsky, | Title: Spain's Liberalism `Make Believe' Aranguren Says; Denounces Franco | 2/15/1966 | See Source »

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