Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard must take a morally responsible position and divest. The recent much-welcomed divestment by Brandeis clearly demonstrates institutional responsiveness to community pressure. Moral hypocrisy provideds a suprisingly vulnerable foundation for policy-making...
...sadly anachronistic about McFarlane's performance. Unlike his fellow players in America's current immorality tales, he exuded a sense of remorse, repentance, shame. He knew he had done wrong, he said. He was sorry. He deserved to be punished. How odd! This kind of guilt, this assuming of moral responsibility for one's actions, has all but vanished from public discourse. It is almost as if the closest glimpse the nation got of honor last week came from seeing it in a mirror: a man had acted with dishonor, saw it for what it was, and came forth...
...some of the others tainted by dishonor, deceit and hypocrisy were to show a similar ability to understand their moral accountability for their actions, perhaps an air of redemption would ensue. But the new American gospel is damage control, using the arts of public relations to deflect blame. "Mistakes were made," was President Reagan's explanation for the Iran- contra affair. His absolute refusal to admit even the slightest responsibility for the ethical chaos around him is telling...
...more pervasive and somehow more ingrained than those of any previous Administration. During other presidencies, scandals such as Watergate seemed to multiply from a single cancer; the Reagan Administration, however, appears to have suffered a breakdown of the immune system, opening the way to all kinds of ethical and moral infections...
Disclosures of hypocrisy and moral laxity infect leadership from Washington to Wall Street, tainting even television evangelists and the Semper Fi U. S. Marines. Do the transgressions represent a general shunning of values that Americans have always held dear, or are they merely a temporary blot brought about by the mindless materialism of the '80s? See ETHICS...