Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trouble with the Israelis is that they are too damn decent and moral. Arabs are without scruples, and where it suits their purposes they break cease-fire agreements, employ paramilitary terrorists, plant bombs in marketplaces, hijack and shoot at Israeli civilian planes, kill Jews and their gentile sympathizers in Europe and America, enlist the use of U.N. agencies in their cause, and generally ignore civilized conduct and international laws and norms. It is time that the Israelis also ignored international conventions and played the same immoral game...
...ending of the Algerian War brought crisis to the new student movement. Partially, the problem was that most of the students were tired. Colonial atrocities easily stung the moral conscience, but with the winning of Algerian independence the heterogeneous student population wanted to go back to its cates, its cinema clubs, its studies, and its love affairs...
Veterans of France's own Vietnam and Algerian wars, their moral outrage was quickly turned into concrete political action both against the U. S. and increasingly against their own government, whom they accused of supporting the war effort...
...have too much integrity and power-but they do not impose a certain mood upon any scene. Instead one feels them as an intelligent penetration of the action, moving with one's sympathies. Rossellini's camera does not assume positions according to some formal conception of the space and moral setup in which he is shooting. It follows human actions, emphasizing them without stylizing appearances...
Dean Ford, who held the press conference with Brooks, said that he is "quite aware of the very strong political and moral feelings" against the Project. But "the difficulty of taking an institutional position against it." he added, "is that it can become a general position of allowing anybody's research to be debarred by a community consensus or even by what may be a small minority...