Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Wait! What can I be thinking? The Republicans are decent, moral folk. They represent Americans who have been continually maligned--no, not the poor or the disabled, but the middle class. The Gingrich troops speak for the middle class, the hard-working "normal Americans" who are often taken for granted by Washington's bureaucrats and special interest groups. They protect the continued prosperity of the middle class. They guarantee that the American dream remains alive...
...legislators"; it was penned directly by lawyers and lobbyists who represent various industries and polluters. The proverbial fox guarding the henhouse never had it so good. The Republicans are shamelessly and unapologetically promoting a pro-business agenda that makes the gluttony of the 1980s look like their party's moral pinnacle...
These are not literary novels, but for many readers they provide welcome relief from the increasingly violent state of popular culture. "There is a real urgency on the part of many Americans to find reading materials that don't offer a moral conflict, that don't engage in gratuitous violence, sex and questionable language," says Phyllis Tickle, religion editor of Publishers Weekly. The tribulations of pretty Ariana, the chaste, Bible-memorizing heroine of Janette Oke's A Gown of Spanish Lace (Bethany House; 251 pages; $14.99), have enticed 238,000 hardback-book buyers so far--more than the latest novels...
...Black Coffee" aims to look realistically at relationships among people stalled at the lower rungs of the corporate ladder. In this vein, it usually succeeds. Matteau does not shove any moral platitudes into her characters' mouths, and she manages to make the main characters interesting in only ten short scenes...
...calls "gods" educational frameworks of a near mythological scope. Postman takes an as to what he considers our false cultural gods including the god of absolute scientific truth, the god of economic utilitarianism and the god of consumerism. Instead he offers five new gods which he hopes will provide moral guidance, a sense of continuity, explanations of the past, clarity to the present hope for the future...