Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...intend to illuminate the Ledger with a blood & thunder tale as they are easy to 'compoze' & are better paid than moral & elaborate works of shakespeare," Alcott wrote to a friend...
...1920s the Scopes trial enacted the collision between the moral universe of older, agricultural America, where the Bible held authority, and the new urban, secular-humanist nation wherein H.L. Mencken was God. The Sacco-Vanzetti trial stirred up all of America's agitations about immigration, anarchy and the Red Menace...
...these Catholics so happy? Haven't they heard that the church in America is in turmoil and disarray--scolded by John Paul for laissez-faire theology, racked by internal squabbles over moral issues (artificial means of birth control, abortion, pre- and extramarital sex, divorce, gay and lesbian rights) up and down the hierarchy and tainted as well by scandal? The spate of news accounts in recent years about priests accused of sexually molesting children is only the most disturbing sign that something must be seriously wrong within the U.S. church. There is another, with potential long-range consequences: the minuscule...
...REAL--OR RATHER, GET UNREAL. TO Wong Foo Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar is a movie [CINEMA, Sept. 18]. Remember what that means? Fantasy. Make-believe. Fairy tale. A genre that is not always designed to inspire moral judgments or politically conscious statements. It aims to entertain, which To Wong Foo does delightfully. What if the story line is predictable? Name a fairy-tale fantasy in which it isn't. What if three drag queens drive into a small, dreary heartland town and add style, brighten lives and create miracles? We believe because we want to think miracles can still...
...staff unfairly criticizes ethnic studies as "inherently political," citing the use of protests reminiscent of the 60s But like those protests, the call for ethnic studies has the moral and intellectual high ground...