Word: morales
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Most defended school prayer as necessary in an age of moral decay...
...other members of a Harvard committee conceived a "brain death" ethic (which calls for the cutting off of artificial life supports after brain activity ends), brands the doctor's role in death by injection one of "active killing." Adds Casscells, perhaps as an appeal to unconvinced colleagues: "The moral issue is difficult. But the political issue is that it's bad public relations-and doctors have enough trouble with their image these days...
This sort of court behavior, also indulged in by John McEnroe and Hie Nastase, is what kindergarten teachers call "age inappropriate." It is punk tennis, the transformation of a formerly pristine game into the moral equivalent of roller derby. The spectacle is symptomatic of something that has befallen the American's idea of how one ought to behave. What would once have been intolerable and impermissible public conduct has now become commonplace. If it is not exactly accepted, then at least it is abjectly and wearily endured...
...have lost a crucial sense of community, even while highways, jets, satellite TV signals and leisure travel have brought them physically closer together. The social environment has grown polluted along with the natural; a headlong greed and self-absorption have sponsored both contaminations. Somehow, Americans have also misplaced the moral confidence with which to condemn sleaziness and stupidity. It is as if something in the American judgment snapped, and has remained so long unrepaired that no one notices any more...
...hang out" got propagated in the headlong idealism of the late '60s. The result is a legacy of insufferable and interminable candor. The idealism has vanished into the mainstream of the culture or into thin air. We are left with the residue of bad habits, ugly noises and moral slackness...