Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...process where blacks are compared solely with other blacks--the author insinuates that unqualified minority students are admitted into the department and white students, as a consequence, are unfairly rejected. The article claims, in addition, that once admitted, these students are provided "free rides" irrespective of financial need. The moral of the story contrived by the article is that Harvard University and the government department are guilty of impropriety...
...that after only two decades of a half-hearted commitment to racial justice, the presence of African-American students at American university campuses remains woefully negligible. The idea that standards are jeopardized as a result of this marginal African-American presence is simply absurd. Lacking credible intellectual or moral justification, irresponsible and malicious claims such as these, by stirring racial animosity, contribute to institutionalized discrimination...
ROGER HOWARTH certainly isn't the first soap star to leave a show to pursue a film career (ever hear of Laurence Fishburne or Demi Moore?) or because the plots were too dopey. But he may be one of the few who left for moral reasons. "I was hired to play Todd, the serial rapist and murderer," says the Emmy-winning Howarth of his role on One Life to Live, "and then I became Todd the erotically charged heir to $27.5 million." When the rapist maniac became a long lost son and his criminal tendency was transformed into something sexually...
...here, recognizably and delightfully, are two weird dudes: a political figure stripped of his moral authority and taking it with a lack of good grace, and a hero who is deeply delusional. Woody turns weak and spiteful; he contemplates criminal mischief to discredit his rival. ("I had power,/ I was respected,/ But not anymore," spits out Randy Newman in one of the film's three very grownup sing-along tunes.) And Buzz is, in the blithest, most genial way, nuts. If you've never in your life seen a toy have a nervous breakdown, Buzz's will make it worth...
...FOURTH NOVEL Oscar Hijuelos, author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, has produced the sort of book that might offer William Bennett hope for America's cultural future. Mr. Ives' Christmas (HarperCollins; 248 pages; $23) is an homage to religious piety, unfailing modesty and moral rectitude. At the novel's center is Ives, a man who overcame his foundling-home beginnings to become a successful Manhattan illustrator and advertising executive. Despite his position, Ives lives a life devoid of bourgeois affectation. He gives to the poor, lusts for no one but his wife and refuses to judge those...