Word: morales
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...evidence of the decline in America's morals, Trippett catalogues examples of public skepticism as to the claims of various pitchmen, politicians and bureaucrats. Yet what is wrong with a public attitude of self-reliant doubt? Would a country of credulous gulls be more moral? He also points a finger at the "relaxation of moral codes" as a reason for "increased deception." Yet this famous "relaxation" means in practice that Americans have been freed from 19th century sexual taboos - and 19th century hypocrisy. Finally, when was this Golden Age when Americans did not attempt to con and cheat...
...Soviet authorities will tap the phone," Kate Sugarman '83, head of the Soviet Jewry Committee at the Hillel said last week, adding, "we really have to be careful about saying anything controversial that would further jeopardize the safety of the refuseniks-we really just want to give them a moral boost...
More pertinently, NCDAR's spokesman wrote to "PS" in order to elicit moral and financial support and to alert the profession concerning the disturbing implications of a case, that should it be lost, would have a decidedly "chilling effect" on academic freedom in universities throughout the country. Charles Stastny Research Associate
Cobb sees architecture as a moral endeavor. He is frustrated by the flippant attitude inherent in much post-modern architecture. In reaction to the strict terms of the modern style, many architects now indulge in haphazard eclectisism. He welcomes the return of the figurative in architecture, the use of forms inbued with cultural meaning and associations. He approves, to a certain degree, of the wit and irony of post-modern designs. He worries, however, that an excess of such levity will weaken the impact of the figurative, resulting in "an unconscious trivialization of meaning." He senses a dangerous carelessness...
Although the efforts of zealous lobbies such as the National Conservative Political Actions Committee and the Moral Majority did not backfire as severely as several Republican candidates feared they might, these groups did not swing the vote toward the GOP as much as the "massive Reagan victory," Gary Orren, lecturer at the Kennedy School of Government and former chief pollster for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), said yesterday...