Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next; and Felice, a young dancer who brought him love but asked for no committment, unlike the other three women. We see a family disaster, his father's financial ruin; a political catastrophe--the decision of Mickey, a lawyer, to "name the names" to The Committee--and a moral catastrophe--the suicide of Lou, Mickey and Quentin's old professor of law, when no one but Quentin would support him against The Committee; and a personal disaster, the break-up of Quentin's first marriage. And he meets Maggie...
...Support the People of South Viet Nam. Opposing their appearance was a Committee to End the War in Viet Nam. They were hailed by a declaration, signed by 132 faculty members and carried in a college newspaper, attacking the U.S. for creating in Viet Nam "a triple crisis-moral, domestic and practical...
...Gamble Jr., 45; the melodramatic defense attorney, Matt H. Murphy Jr., 51, self-described "Imperial Klonsel" of the Ku Klux Klan; the defendant himself, a bored auto mechanic, potbellied despite his youth; Robert Shelton, Imperial Wizard of the United Klans of America, who sat at the defense table providing moral support and advice until the judge requested him to take a seat elsewhere; and the two key prosecution witnesses-Negro Leroy Moton, 20, who was riding in the car with Viola Liuzzo on the night of the murder, and FBI Informer Gary Thomas Rowe...
...pragmatic reasons add up to the notion that the U.S. either cannot win or need not win in order to safeguard its interests. The moral objections are often weakened by the fact that, while the critics condemn the use of force against North Viet Nam, they either condone or ignore it in other situations-such as Sukarno's guerrilla war against Malaysia, Red China's conquest of Tibet or, most important, the Viet Cong's own terror against South Vietnamese peasants...
...more (and a lot less) to the Old West than meets the eye of the guy who watches "Gunsmoke" every Sunday night. Residents of the great Plains were economic men who had better things to do than sit around saloons waiting for a shoot-out or a moral dilemma. The broad side of barn doors represented the outer limit of marksmanship for most cowpokes, few of whom could afford to by guns or ammunition or target practice. Belle Starr and Calamity Jane looked more like Hoss Cartwright than Miss Kitty. Billy the Id has been described as an "adenoidal idiot...