Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Billy succeeds because he perceives the moral code that motivates the gang. The toughs, Bathgate notes, operate under a "pure inverted premise" of crime as a lifestyle, under which conventional morality still lurks. And although Billy does not accept this philosophy, "it was the premise I had to work...
Billy's mother is personally unreliable, but there is method in her madness. As her son rises to success (or falls, depending on the reader's moral outlook), she follows her own unpredictable route that eventually meets Billy...
America has long believed in the theory that absolute job security increases the odds of independence and moral courage. College professors are granted tenure to ensure their right to voice unpopular opinions. Supreme Court Justices serve for life to free them from having to bow to the prevailing political winds. All these arrangements make sense, until one considers the curious case of the U.S. House of Representatives...
...depressing even as wars go, would seem to be nearly untouchable. Not only was there too much R-rated action (drug abuse, massacres of civilians) but the story had an unhappy ending. Such recent movies as Platoon and Full Metal Jacket could immerse their audience in the muck and moral quicksand for a couple of hours and then let go. But TV series must keep viewers coming back week after week, adhering to standards of "family entertainment" along...
...studies, which have tilted both ways in the past 25 years, now show overwhelming support for the death sentence. Politicians who fan the fires are seeking heat, not light, and they make reasoned discussion difficult. Capital punishment tells us a lot about ourselves and our willingness to create a moral code that rises above destructive anger and the call for revenge in kind. We seem to have a double standard about death: it is wrong to murder, but killing in reprisal is O.K. For those who believe all murder, including executions, is wrong, it will never be acceptable for society...