Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...need to do so is widely recognized. In a recent poll for TIME conducted by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman,* more than 90% of the respondents agreed that morals have fallen because parents fail to take responsibility for their children or to imbue them with decent moral standards; 76% saw lack of ethics in businessmen as contributing to tumbling moral standards; and 74% decried failure by political leaders to set a good example...
...Vatican, too, raised a storm last March when it issued a document calling for legal restraints on medical manipulation of human birth, including in vitro fertilization, surrogate motherhood and termination of flawed fetuses. Moral traditionalists of all faiths cheered. Biomedical science, they claimed, must not intrude on natural life processes. But many liberals sided with Michigan Lawyer Noel Keane, a pioneer in arranging surrogate agreements, who reportedly declared, "I think the church is a little out of touch with reality." The document has prompted serious debate, but so far it has moved the country no closer to a consensus...
...strain of righteousness lies deep in the American character. As John Gunther wrote in Inside U.S.A., "Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea." That good idea combines a commitment to man's inalienable rights with the Calvinist belief in an ultimate moral right and sinful man's obligation to do good. These articles of faith, embodied in the Declaration of Independence and in the Constitution, literally govern our lives today. Meanwhile the compulsions to repent and punish sin remain just beneath the skin, erupting like fever blisters in times of stress and producing a rash...
...with these selfish tendencies toward evasion, a yearning exists for the good old days when, supposedly, people knew what was expected and did it. Yet many agree with Martin Marty, who says, "I don't think there ever were any good old days" in the sense of a more moral America. As the Rev. McMillan puts it, "I don't know when these good old days were when they talk about morality in Mississippi. There was a lot of teenage pregnancy back then, but it was black girls being impregnated by white men. Black people were being lynched, and nothing...
...children," Coles points out. He regards this as a hopeful sign of "decency, compassion and sensitivity to others, as well as to one's own needs." Some graduate students in professional schools, on the other hand, still seem preoccupied with their personal ambitions. In an effort to encourage moral inquiry, Coles taught a special ethics class at the business school this spring, using characters and incidents from novels and short stories to dramatize the need for broader values. During one class focused on F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon, Coles called out a cadence of four words from...