Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Predictably, some blamed the moral numbing of big-city life-its vanishing sense of community, the fear of "getting involved," the idea that crime is only for policemen to handle. Yet, as Virginia Law Professor Charles O. Gregory noted: "Our common law has always refused to transmute moral duties into legal duties." A man who ignores a drowning baby may be "a moral monster," ruled a New Hampshire court in 1897, "but he is not liable in damages for the child's injury, or indictable under the statute for its death...
...reveal this lack of perspective when you start pleturing virtue in rags and vice "impeccably dressed." When you pass moral judgment on that famous old institution, drunken college students. When you are outraged that anyone might say "Bomb Hanoi," whether serious or not. When you condemn a protest for being, as one female SDS student said, "not according to procedure...
Their mimeographed questionnaire asked two questions: What is the best way to get good grades? And what influences your moral decisions most? The respondents were asked to rate five possible answers in order of importance...
...indignation we are meant to feel is undercut by the "cool" aspect of Duke's existence. Like James Bond, he and his companions appear to have a sort of moral license to enjoy the forbidden pleasures of promiscuity, drink, and bloody adventures. Their hip talk and brotherhood in crime have an alluring in-group quality. Miss Clarke allowed this deceptive appeal to enter her argument when she chose adolescent protagonists...
...times, then ripped off the binding; "I would take those pages which gave me a jazz-for any reason-and tack them up on the wall. I ended up with perhaps 100 pages which excited me. Then I would thread my continuity between that excitement, frequently changing the general moral tone of the book, or its purpose, to fit that excitement...