Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Holding Harvard to its own ethical standards is not just useless, philosophical casuistry. As Bok argues in his annual report, moral education must come from "efforts beyond the classroom." The University must therefore come to terms with its own conduct and deal honestly with fundraising, the union, and tenuring women and minorities...
There was a time when the Black Sox Scandal was central to the moral education of young American males. The fact that it involved baseball players -- members of the 1919 Chicago White Sox -- who conspired with gamblers to throw the World Series (no less) struck at the very center of boyhood. The fact that the consequence of the act was so dire -- permanent banishment from baseball -- in comparison with the paltry rewards (a few thousand dollars to each man) imparted ironic force to the story. And then there were the poignant sidebars: the little boy crying...
Particularly for city folks, who pride themselves on their survival instincts and their street smarts, the dilemma is often more practical than moral: they are afraid of being conned. While willing to help those who are truly in need, they are suspicious that many panhandlers are actually hustlers. "I've come to the point where they're all pros until proved otherwise," says the Rev. Chuck Faso of St. Peter's Roman Catholic Church in Chicago. "We have been taken so many times. They come in here with tears in their eyes and ask for exactly $82.33 for bus fare...
...belated embrace of combat chic, which now stretches from movie screens to comic books, seems a disturbingly one-sided way to redress the inequities of the Viet Nam-era draft. Away from the heat of political campaigns, many Americans acknowledge that the Viet Nam War was fraught with moral ambiguity and that honor could be found in either serving one's country or protesting what one believed was its march toward folly. Says Sociologist Jerold Starr, the editor of a widely praised academic curriculum on Viet Nam, "The principled act was to make a choice about your commitment...
...illusions about imperfection, his own or the church's. Yet, although he is far removed from his days as a literal hair-shirt mystic at the seminary, he still believes the church is the one sure way to salvation. This, compounded by a moral disgust at his surroundings, leads to his most fundamental conviction: "The separation of Church and Dreck was a matter of life and death for the world...