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Word: moralizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best-seller, which was subtitled "How higher education has failed Democracy and impoverished the souls of today's students," Bloom charges that colleges are responsible for the moral failings of modern youth. Specifically, Bloom argues, students have not received sufficient exposure to classics of Western thought...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: Bennett, Bloom Seek Curricular Reform | 10/22/1988 | See Source »

American society as a whole seems unable or unwilling to make hard decisions on pressing moral dilemmas. We live in a complex society and many controversial issues confront us every day. But instead of choosing to help in a real and meaningful way, we throw up our hands in despair and do nothing...

Author: By Suk Han, | Title: Now This Is Malaise | 10/19/1988 | See Source »

...power of the media is immense. Yet it is disturbing to think that the press has the power to manipulate our personal moral consciousnesses. A few years ago, the news broadcasts were filled with haunting clips of sick, starving Ethiopians. The outpouring of aid at the time was tremendous, mostly due to the massive amounts of publicity the famine received...

Author: By Suk Han, | Title: Now This Is Malaise | 10/19/1988 | See Source »

...late seventies and eighties have not seen the emergence of a situation which demands a demonstration of moral strength, which unites everyone with a sense of pride, strength, or even outrage. Our generation has never confronted a reality harsher than Reaganism. We no longer have that common depth of emotion that used to shake up and move the world. Vice President George Bush claims we have to focus on values. I claim we have to rediscover our national feeling, and our collective moral conscious...

Author: By Suk Han, | Title: Now This Is Malaise | 10/19/1988 | See Source »

...three panelists at a colloquium titled "How to Be Good," the noted linguist told students, "This is the time in your life when you'll be free to consider moral questions. Later in life you're going to be inside institutions and you're going to internalize their values...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Short Takes | 10/19/1988 | See Source »

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