Word: moralizes
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...case be made for a memorial to the Confederate dead at Harvard? Of course it can, and the case deserves a better hearing Chan is allowed by the present hurling of moral invective. I have been engaged in this very public discussion now for nearly 20 years, and thus am no newcomer so the issues which only in recent days appear to have excited, the Crimson editorialists and the Black Law Students Association. The community deserves to know something of the back-ground of this issue, and of why I, at least, have devoted years of writing and speaking...
...this plaque, perhaps more than any other single issue, that persuaded me of the value of a commemoration of the Confederate dead. It had nothing to do with the righteousness of their cause, or with a form of moral amnesia, as The Crimson suggests, and everything to do with the hope that after nearly a century and a half the University could reconcile at least in memory, its dead sons as a sign of the abiding fellowship of memory and of hope to which the University aspires. Never was it to be a patch-up job over fundamental differences...
...Orleans, where I come from, folks are divided into two categories: preachers and storytellers. I'm a bit more in the storyteller camp. I believe that ever since we invented campfires, narrative tales have been the best way to capture people's attention, to convey ideas and moral beliefs. And as an occasional biographer, I believe that portraying interesting people is a good way to make the world come alive. "TIME did not invent personality journalism," Luce once said. "The Bible...
...enough to bring a smile to the face of William Bennett, the former Secretary of Education and dependable moral scold who, along with Democratic Senators Joseph Lieberman and Sam Nunn, launched a crusade last October against what Bennett termed the "cultural rot" of TV talk shows. Said Lieberman at the time: "These shows increasingly make the abnormal normal and set up the most perverse role models. It's time for a revolt of the revolted." The trio went so far as to make a TV ad targeting advertisers on the more controversial programs...
...FIND RELIGIOUSLY IRRELEvant the question of whether events described in the Bible represent historical fact [COVER STORIES, Dec. 18]. If it could be proved that every event portrayed in the Bible is absolutely and unequivocally historically false, my faith would remain unaltered because the Bible represents eternal spiritual and moral truth. The Jewish Bible represents a spiritual communication between the Jewish people and God and is not subject to historical analysis. I want to learn about historical facts, which may or may not corroborate the stories in the Bible. But that endeavor is of no consequence to my faith...