Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MONTEVERDI: IL BALLO DELLE INGRATE (Nonesuch). This musical play of 1608 taught the ladies of the Duke of Mantua's court a moral: Make love or you will go to Hades. As horrible examples, Pluto brings up from his dark kingdom an eternally damned bevy of pale beauties who, when on earth, "ungrateful, held every lover at a distance." Edwin Loehrer and the chorus and orchestra of the Società Cameristica di Lugano give the embryonic opera a convincing performance...
...divorcing couple. For this reason, reformers have long urged a uniform federal divorce code. Congress has no power to enact one without a constitutional amendment, and every proposed amendment since 1884 has failed because states jealously guard their right to marriage and divorce laws based on local conditions and moral attitudes. In fact, a federal law that would supersede local law is not necessary. The states ideally should get together and work out a uniform divorce code that would be agreeable to all of them, with local options where necessary...
Yale Chaplain William Slone Coffin mixed moral persuasion, debating tactics and humor last night when he lambasted the United States Policy in Vietnam...
...college student today who faces the draft and has any moral qualms about the war is going to have a major psychological hang-up," he said. For this reason, he said, there should be "a whole gamut of responses possible" for the potential draftee. He suggested that young men could "share the burden of the war, but not its purposes" by joining the Peace Corps or Vista "until there is a better war to fight," or by volunteering their services to a U.N. standing army...
...Never repress your moral sensibilities. Never. You have to give them outlets..." he said solemnly. Then he grinned, adding. "Of course money is always a very good...