Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last Tuesday's Crimson that Professor Thernstrom had been formally charged by students with allegedly having made "racially insensitive" remarks in his lectures. Having attended Professor Thernstrom's lectures in 1985, I am convinced this charge is entirely unfounded, and deplore the students' ill-considered decision to attack the moral integrity of one of the university's most thoughtful and compassionate teachers and scholars. Even more disturbing is the refusal of anyone, other than Professor Thernstrom, to raise in the Crimson the far more fundamental issue of free speech...
...televised speech appeared certain to deepen divisions caused by the report of an international panel of historians last week. The report questioned Waldheim's moral integrity and said he did nothing to stop Nazi atrocities during World War II despite being "in close proximity" to them...
...strong standing army of the I.D.F. is mired in a different -- and more deeply frustrating -- kind of mission: containing the uprising of 1.4 million Palestinians no longer willing to submit to Israel's 20-year rule in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. That conflict is producing serious moral and emotional problems for many of the 7,000 soldiers on duty in the occupied territories. It is also raising fears among psychologists and army officers that the occupation will cause lasting damage to one of the world's most respected fighting forces -- and Israel's most revered institution. Israel...
...soldiers face that moral dilemma daily as they struggle to carry out a policy enunciated three weeks ago by Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin of using "force, strength and blows" to put down the rioting. Since then Israeli soldiers have wielded boots, batons and rifle butts against hundreds of unarmed Palestinian men, women and children. Israeli officials noted that the policy is far more humane than the earlier approach of using live ammunition against the rioters, which left slightly more than three dozen Palestinians dead. Though the beatings seemed to bring an uneasy calm to the occupied territories, Israel's image...
...horrible influence on the Jewish population," they wrote. "We are busy every day in the act of oppression. We are losing our sensitivity to human suffering, and our children are being brought up on values of discrimination and racism. Our soldiers are put in an impossible situation from a moral point of view...