Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...forget. But the Germans never really had a full chance to come to terms with their guilt feelings: less than four years after their defeat, they passed from being pariahs to valuable pawns in the East-West struggle-a bewildering and indecent haste hardly calculated to reinforce any moral lessons. Moreover, West Germany has become a youthful nation: over half its population of 58 million were born or grew up after the Nazi era. These new Germans, who had nothing to do with Hitler, will agree with ex-President Theodore Heuss in accepting a "collective shame" for their nation...
Bailyn demonstrates that the Pamphleteers' moral and social views derived from the Enlightenment in Europe and in particular from a group of radical early 18th-Century English publicists...
...student radicals seem to perceive any conflict between their underlying existential philosophies and their Marxist sympathies. There is certainly a strong psychological link between the two. Anyone drawn to the uncompromising individualism of existentialism with its rejection of a priori moral authority is likely to have an opposing urge to commit himself entirely to authority. That is a commonplace in psychology, but it is often forgotten by those who notice the intellectual inconsistency between the two positions. Sartre easily fits the existentialist-Marxist pattern of deep ambivalence to authority, if the childhood he describes in The Words is any indication...
...other lives around him as tubes of paint to be squeezed onto his emotional self-portrait. In consequence, the sex battle becomes a war of egos. But Gelber's hero is concerned about being self-concerned, feels guilty about not feeling guilty, and this suffuses the play with moral pathos-even while it is being abrasively funny...
...appears to act as a stimulant only because it masks fatigue); and because it relaxes first the "most civilized" functions of the brain, it tends to banish worry. It makes people more tolerant of each other's foibles. It loosens tongues, and may dissolve some legal and moral restraints. But Dr. Chafetz is chary of the widely held belief that men or women do unacceptable things merely because they are under the influence. "The virgin who succumbs because she drank too deeply," he says, "was tired of waiting before her first drink...