Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...federal agencies, since the government has done things in the past which do not jive with Harvard's supposed mission as liberal institution? The CIA is not South Africa, from which many American companies have divested in order to protest the actions of the apartheid regime. There is no moral basis, then, for rejecting money from the CIA but accepting it basically without restriction from all other sectors in society--industries, other government agencies, foundations and wealthy donors...
...this instance. Having said nothing about taking charges of assaulting a woman serioulsy, the University should not have said they were bothered by charges of drug use. This means either the University feels charges of drug use are more serious--in which case the University should rethink its moral judgments--or the University does not realize that its response to such matters is taken by the community as an expression of its moral judgments...
...Many hire experts to teach the toddlers music, calligraphy or a foreign language. A few even force their sons and daughters to parrot elegant Tang dynasty poetry. Says Fang Xiang, a retired child psychologist: "There is no need for tutoring in composition or arithmetic. What's important is moral education at home...
Douglas Groothuis, a research associate at a Christian think tank called Probe Center Northwest and author of Unmasking the New Age, raises a similar objection. "Once you've deified yourself," he says, "which is what the New Age is all about, there is no higher moral absolute. It's a recipe for ethical anarchy. I see it as a counterfeit religious claim. It's both messianic and millennial...
...public lives -- and our secret ones. His elegant disdain helped sweep the boards of the dusty verse drama that then passed for high seriousness, and of the cobwebbed comic conventions that served only a low commercial cunning. His eloquent partisanship opened the doors not just for a new moral consciousness but for fresh forms of theatrical literacy, like Tom Stoppard's bedazzling overstatements and Harold Pinter's hypnotic understatements. At Tynan's memorial service in 1980, the former turned to the critic's children and said, "For those of us who shared his time, your father was part...