Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dead cats out on the top of the table. I hate sitting down to a pussyfooting conversation." He startled the National Academy of Sciences meeting by declaring in a formal address that "scientism" at too many universities has "run riot," aided by "the contemptuous attitude of some scientists toward moral problems." A university, he said, must teach values as well as facts, since "the pressure of events each day forces all of us to make value decisions now of titanic consequence, and youth will not be put off to a later day for moralizing...
...woman in the audience, expecting paradox and paradigm, was disturbed and disappointed when she found instead this moral tragedy. "It's not modern drama," she complained to her husband. Indeed Hogan's Goat is old-fashioned: old fashioned in its religious theme, old-fashioned in its tight construction, old-fashioned in its immense dramatic power...
...nine week trip, which may cost as much as $126,000, will be financed from the contributions of present and past Glee Club members and other interested parties, Black said. Although the U.S. Government and the University both give moral support to the program, neither contributes financially...
...were guided not by "anticipation of the futility of protest," but by the belief that our inaction might seriously harm a Program to which we felt a moral obligation: not by "(anticipation of) the harassment (protest) might entail," but by the reasoned judgment that renouncing our awards and insulting the President was an inappropriate, fruitless, and irresponsible way to express our political views. Amory B. Lovins...
...these themes might have stung the play into fitful life if it were not smothered in rhetoric. Danton inhales moral smog and exhales bombast. Herbert Blau is credited with translating the German; he has assuredly embalmed the English. Thanks to Blau, Robespierre has been given an outward resemblance to Barry Goldwater. This is a political subtlety fully worthy of the mentality that-in a since-deleted program note-linked Lyndon B. Johnson and Mao Tse-tung as fellow tyrants. Thanks to Blau, too, the direction resembles a wind machine blowing actors around like autumn leaves...