Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Herald praised Johnson's action as "intelligent and enlightened" and "practical and far-sighted". But the University's acting chaplain, the Rev. Jullus S. Scott Jr., said he felt the health service's action "patently documents the moral ambiguity of the university campus, the collapse of the tight ethical systems,...and the necessity for toughminded conversation about the nature of moral life in our times...
...court and Taney court", writes Miller, "thus kept their purpose fixed upon the idea of restriction, because, perhaps, if nothing were permitted, no violence would result." The brief chapter and the outlines on science suggest that in Miller's hands science and technology would also have spelled out their moral justification in terms of national unity, binding the nation with railroads and telegraph wires before it could shatter...
...especially the moral side of American nationalism which Miller rediscovers for us, the side which the nineteenth century called "sublime." Miller devoted many lectures in English 274 to an analysis of the "sublime" in all its phases--moral, romantic, intellectual, egotistical. The word was so complex that capsule definition was impossible, though once to uncomprehending graduate students he explained that "Sandy Koufax is sublime; Don Drysdale is only beautiful." He had planned an introductory chapter on the sublime, but as it stands we can still appreciate something of the importance of the word from its role in the first...
...limited wars that the U.S. is now fighting, and doubtless will continue to fight for the next half-century or more, have a moral purpose too. In South Viet Nam, this purpose is to preserve freedom of choice for that country and others near it that the Communists might overwhelm...
...likely to be accepted," noted that "this is the first time an effort has been made to settle disaster claims en masse by reviewing the damages and having the defendant put up an amount to cover them." As for raising the money, Archbishop Cody says the archdiocese has "a moral obligation" to borrow from banks rather than solicit Chicago parishes...