Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Emphasizing that the Mid-East question is a moral problem as well as a political one, Basheer said he found it hard to believe that the Israelies, once persecuted themselves, could "deny" another people their human rights...
...slicked-down, "with-it" Pontiff one might think the 20th century requires. Indeed, he has been called by some social critics within his own church a throwback to the frosty Pius XII. His pronouncements, shaped by the rigors of his Eastern Catholicism and his perception of a world in moral drift, have served to defend the eroding frontiers of faith and practice. He is both personable and tough-- a difficult combination to defeat, and, in these soft days, to understand...
...Rules for Radicals." He directs the campaign against Stevens directors adhering to Alinsky's proposition that "it is not man's 'better nature' but his self-interest that demands the he be his brother's keeper." He forces Stevens directors to take what he calls "the low road to morality," or to make a moral decision not because of a sincere moral concern, but because of a threatened personal interest. And his overall strategy against Stevens is directed by Alinsky's gospel, "Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize...
...Greek Colonels self-destructed in 1974 by instigating an abortive coup in Cyprus and made way for the return of Constantine Caramanlis, the U.S. reacted with general relief. Still, the world is full of dictatorships, the U.S. has to deal with most of them, and simply condemning them on moral grounds is not a policy. Support for many of these regimes is widely accepted as necessary in a divided and dangerous world. Since the height of the cold war, American policymakers have been saying of one right-wing despot or another, as Franklin Roosevelt is supposed to have said...
Ultimately, says former Time Inc. President and Publisher James A. Linen,"Roy Larsen realized the world was made up of people, not things. He was softspoken, charming and underneath a man of great moral and intellectual courage and conviction." Henry Luce's sister, Elisabeth Moore, added a valedictory assessment: "Harry was the genius, but Roy was the one who could make things happen...