Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Someone needs to be the public voice of conscience for the University," said Reeves. "My hope is that the University will find its moral compass and finds its way going forward instead of backwards...
...that abortion is fundamentally equivalent to murder and that compromise is ethical surrender? I doubt it. There are those that do, and those people are the ones who set up counseling services for pregnant teenagers and help parents of unwanted children find foster families. They see abortion as a moral dilemma, not as a chance to villify the poor...
...many Republicans, abortion is merely one of a host of issues--the death penalty, school choice, flag-burning--that supposedly stand for a commitment to values in the face of moral decay in America. These people, Bob Dole among them, don't believe in the sanctity of the human fetus, and they compromise in the cases of rape and incest...
...when, according to Cowles Professor of Sociology Orlando Patterson, "the bottom third of the African-American population--some 10 million persons--live in dire poverty," and "the bottom 10 per cent or so--the so-called underclass--exist in an advanced stage of social, economic, and moral disintegration," seizing opportunity, making use of programs like affirmative action for example (as both men admit was part of the reason they made it to the Ivy League as students), is an integral part of success. A Yankelovich Partners, Inc.--New Yorker survey (the results of which were published in the special issue...
...works by Kienholz, now at New York City's Whitney Museum of American Art, is a pretty good tribute to this profuse, energetic, sometimes brilliant and sometimes very corny artist. Kienholz didn't believe in refinement. What he believed in was a combination of technical know-how, moral anger and all-American barbaric yawp. Moving through the show is like being alternately slugged and hectored by a redneck Godzilla with strong libertarian-anarchist convictions. His truck used to have ED KIENHOLZ--EXPERT painted on the door. You might not trust Roy Lichtenstein to frame a shed or Jasper Johns...