Word: sinful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After at least a decade of the famous Sexual Revolution, it is often assumed that most Americans have entered a state known as the New Morality. It is a condition in which pleasure is the principle, living in sin is no sin, and more or less anything, between consenting adults, goes. Yet although some observers have proclaimed the revolution triumphant, new battles keep breaking out. Examples...
...Women are generally more conservative than men on these issues, perhaps be cause, as one woman observed, "they usually have to pay the consequences." They are even as quick to apply the double standard-i.e., like men, women condemned female adultery more than male adultery.) The worst sin of all is when couples exchange partners: 81% of everyone questioned condemned...
...move slowly. One unmistakable new element on the scene, however, is President Jimmy Carter, whom 53% of the Yankelovich respondents regarded as providing "strong moral leadership" (13% found him "too righteous"). Carter's influence may take some personal twists, like urging Government employees "who are living in sin" to get married (four of his top aides have done so since his election). On the other hand, the President's personal views can have major political significance, as in his opposition to Government funding for elective abortions a view that has been widely denounced but is supported...
...almost completely ignore Antal Dorati-the genius who made the National Symphony worthy of a Rostropovich; who worked similar miracles with the London, Stockholm, BBC and Minneapolis symphonies; who has-almost sin-glehanded-created a Haydn revival; and who has championed the works of countless contemporary composers...
...Second Deadly Sin, Sanders (7) 10. Illusions, Bach...