Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Anti-U.S. feeling in Japan has sharpened as a result of trade disputes over the past two years, and Washington is eager to calm the tensions. So, for diplomatic reasons, and no doubt feeling genuine moral outrage, Mondale was quick to apologize for the Okinawa rape. Appearing on a Larry King radio special, Clinton said the U.S. "deeply regrets" the incident. "We do not condone any misconduct or any abuse of the Japanese people," he said. "We think that anyone who violates the laws should be treated accordingly...
...problem may be that there is an ingredient missing. Emotional skills, like intellectual ones, are morally neutral. Just as a genius could use his intellect either to cure cancer or engineer a deadly virus, someone with great empathic insight could use it to inspire colleagues or exploit them. Without a moral compass to guide people in how to employ their gifts, emotional intelligence can be used for good or evil. Columbia University psychologist Walter Mischel, who invented the marshmallow test and others like it, observes that the knack for delaying gratification that makes a child one marshmallow richer can help...
Given the passionate arguments that are raging over the state of moral instruction in this country, it is no wonder Goleman chose to focus more on neutral emotional skills than on the values that should govern their use. That's another book--and another debate...
...mentality of abstinence demands a certain elementary moral metaphysics. Teach this: the more you indulge in anything, good or bad, but especially bad--in drugs, casual sex, violence, idiot music, stupidity, driving 90 m.p.h., bad manners, rage--the more you lose. The more you abstain, the more you gain. This is not cheap rhyming paradox but a good truth that in the past generation or two has been swept away by raw sewage. For an adolescent, abstinence means security and, therefore, the freedom that comes with self-possession. Abstinence becomes a medium of clarity, the window through which...
Eszterhas has urged teenagers to use fake IDs to get into his movie, to which Hollywood czar Jack Valenti declares, "Someone who would make that statement needs professional counseling--it's so palpably stupid." The screenwriter also insists the film has a modern, even feminist moral: "The message is that you don't have to sell your soul to make...