Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Falwell is the leader of the Liberty Federation, a conservative political group which includes the Moral Majority. He also founded the Thomas Road Baptist Church in Lynchburg, Virginia, and now preaches to television and radio audiences of millions...
...malevolent spirits envisioned by his little boy; two college students volunteer for a government experiment and become parents of a daughter with a unique gift: she can make things burst into flame with the force of her will. All of these fantasies are built on an armature of moral order. The good suffer, but the malefactors perish. "Beneath its fangs and fright wig," the author confesses, the horror tale is "as conservative as an Illinois Republican in a three-piece pinstripe suit...
...sorcery epic written for Naomi, who read Carrie and has since refused to venture into any of her father's other books. Tommyknockers, still being revised, is a sci-fi epic set in the post-Chernobyl era. "It's about how our ability to make gadgets outraces the moral ability" is all King is willing to disclose. Misery, just about completed, is a psychological novel "about a crazy nurse who captures her pet writer and hooks him on drugs after a car crash. He writes bodice-ripper novels about a character called Misery Chastain. She wants him to write...
...about the fashionable streets like flocks of orphans in Brazil or in Beirut, like the earth's poorest children -- hanging out, swooping into saloons where no one looks twice at the doctored ID cards; the kids' money is good. Don't blame the saloonkeepers, say the sociologists. Blame the moral carelessness that parents pass off as the gift of freedom as they cut their children loose like colorful kites and wish them an exciting flight...
...their times. For thousands of years, various, and very different, definitions of freedom -- Aristotelian, Cartesian, Augustinian, Kantian -- have all related freedom to significant choice. Over the past 20 years, the idea of freedom has evolved like a mutated animal, involving the absence not only of significant choice but of moral or rational restraints. Without a context of limitations, freedom has become dangerous and meaningless. If freedom has no restraints and embraces everything, then it risks becoming tyranny, since logically it must include tyranny among the things it embraces...