Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nation looked reflexively to the next generation of Kennedys to see which of them would end up on campaign posters. A lot of them had the same Kennedy twinkle, the same robust manner that had helped make their elders the stuff of legend. Many had the family's customary moral earnestness and alertness to any instance of social justice denied. But of 29 cousins, only four have so far gone on to elected office. Ted's son Patrick is a Congressman from Rhode Island. Mark Shriver, the son of Eunice Kennedy and Sargent Shriver, is a second-term Maryland state...
...save the nation from the icy well into which it had fallen. She traveled incessantly and showed a hands-on, sympathetic curiosity about the lives of poor and black and beleaguered working Americans. TIME called her Eleanor Everywhere. E.R.'s brave, stubbornly autonomous performance broke new psychological and moral ground for American women...
...mysteries Bill encountered the night before. In Schnitzler's novel, Bill is left without a true explanation to his journey. But Kubrick inserts a scene where all loose ends are tied up and the result is almost laughable. The film limps to its finish, without catharsis or meaning. The "moral" of the film, according to Alice who had her own horrifying dream adventure the night before, is that "no dream is only a dream" just as no one night symbolizes all "reality." It's a direct quote from the last page of Schnitzler's novella--a very sad example...
...book, she dreams of her husband being tortured and crucified). It may seem unfair to criticize a movie because it is its own story, and not Arthur Schnitzler's. But this film has Dream Story's narrative structure, and throughout the movie--especially when the novella's closing moral is repeated verbatim--Kubrick commits himself to Schnitzler's theme...
This year's core program offers 101 courses in foreign cultures, historical studies, literature and arts, moral reasoning, science core areas and social analysis, compared to 92 courses in the areas last year...