Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Celebrities who publicly embrace worthy causes sometimes seem to be auditioning less for Sense and Sensibility than for Clueless. Stars have dangled from bridges to protest logging practices, hawked clothes made in sweatshops while promoting moral values and slugged pesky photographers even as they were begging for kindness to animals. A recent surge of show-biz interest in children, however, seems to be as well aimed as it is high profile. More than half a dozen organizations founded or funded by Hollywood celebrities are zeroing in on kids' issues. And early childhood development is one of their top concerns...
...unmarried sibling's papers an intimate letter from Sarah and is suddenly propelled beyond the limit of what he knows and what he wants to know. When, further, the couple's divorced daughter Anna falls into the arms of a married man, all four are cast into a moral darkness, where each is alone, "a child lost in a world of shadows...
Occasionally, the prose can sound like homily. But Clark unfolds the story's moral dramas with rare assurance and grownup charity. As his people learn to lie--to protect others and not themselves--and as they come to see how "sometimes the better part of love is silence," he suggests that religion consists mostly of the faith we have in those around us. In the Deep Midwinter not only shows how love can lead to suffering, but also, more interestingly, points out how suffering can lead to love...
...might ask it to accommodate itself to the Harvard community for the sake of peace, a general calm in the community, but we cannot and should not ask it to waver in its commitment to principle. Not only will such accommodation weaken the church, it will weaken the moral force of its pronouncements...
Therefore, when we call for Memorial Church to perform same-sex ceremonies, we should do so out of a sense of moral purpose, not out of obedience to Harvard...