Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stewart's journalistic career has taken him through wars and upheavals in Viet Nam, India and the Middle East, yet he considers the Burma rebellion unique. "This is the first genuinely popular revolt I have ever witnessed," he says. "The people here have faced armed force with moral force and given the world a lesson in courage." A lesson that Stewart and Tucci, alone among the Western press, have been on hand to record...
Paradoxically, Eliot's failings are magnified by the enormous moral authority he acquired through his writing. He did not speak with the flamboyance of personality, that itch toward originality that distinguishes this blood-soaked century. Instead, he offered his words in the service of a long tradition, from Vergil to Dante to Donne to the Puritans among his ancestors. He saw himself, at times, as a modern Aeneas, compelled to struggle, suffer and carry old burdens to a new synthesis of civilization. He knew he was courting failure. He mocked his own earnestness in verse: "How unpleasant to meet...
...Cronenberg. Images of corporal corruption -- of malefic birth and voracious organs -- stalk his They Came from Within, Rabid, The Brood, Scanners and Videodrome. Heads explode, and monsters issue from the wombs of women. In Cronenberg's masterwork, The Fly, one man wages a heroic, doomed struggle against physical and moral degeneration; his body has a twisted mind of its own. The catalog of punishments seems medieval -- Savonarola meets Bosch -- even as it taps baby boomers' fears of decaying vitality and eviscerated dreams. For Cronenberg the body is a haunted house whose rumblings trigger lust, mystery and excruciating pain...
...stereotypes as to justify them. As for the fundamental question posed by U.S. fans -- Why do the Soviets generally perform better? -- there are some logical answers. For one thing, the Olympics are the centerpiece of Soviet athletic life and are regarded as a vital means of demonstrating Communism's moral superiority. After the triumph over the U.S. in Montreal, for example, some 347 athletes, coaches and officials were honored with such prestigious decorations as the Order of Lenin. By contrast, sporting life in the U.S. centers on professional teams, and the rewards are commensurate: Edwin Moses, the greatest hurdler...
...striking on Labor Day morning when Dukakis tried to hold an informal town meeting with a few dozen voters in South Philadelphia. The questions on schools and the environment were serious, but so was the jeering from 100 antiabortion protesters, who turned a picturesque event into near chaos. The moral: a Dukakis aide predicts, "There aren't going to be too many events like that...