Word: morally
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...year-old élites of China, "a Nintendo Wii comes way ahead of democracy," as a Chinese publisher put it [Nov. 5]. Elegant portrayed the Chinese twentysomethings as self-absorbed aristocrats, but when was the last time young adults in the U.S. gave a damn about anything political, moral or nonmaterialistic? In the '70s? America's spoiled youth are just as bad as, if not worse than, spoiled Chinese kids...
...buttoned-up demeanor. In her memoir, Living History, she writes that she was tasked in grade school with keeping the "incorrigible boys" in line, a role that seems entirely in character. Conservatives bristle at the sense of being told what to do, and they detect a tone of moral superiority in her advocacy of children's programs and health care. When she says, "It takes a village," they hear an implicit threat to have government impinge on their prerogatives as parents...
...There was another happy symbol at President Faust’s inaugural, and it was the Reserve Officers Training Corp (ROTC) color guard, which led the procession out of Tercentenary Theatre. The status of ROTC at Harvard is suspended in a troubled balance of forces, both historical and moral. Today Harvard ROTC students can stand guard over our president, and yet Harvard pretends ROTC isn’t there, except to deny it support...
...achieve moral purity for ourselves in one area by shifting a separate moral burden to other shoulders...
...pleased to see the Harvard cadets in an honored position at the inaugural. And yet, the image of our cadets standing guard over our president makes our moral chasm more visible...