Word: moralizers
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...devote attention to infractions that busy juvenile and family courts tend to handle perfunctorily. "Referring kids [to peer courts] lets us do more than just slap them on the wrist," says Patrice Lockart, a victim specialist with the Colonie police department. The experience is also more attuned to teenagers' moral development, conveying not just that there are consequences for their behavior but also that society cares about them...
...boiled outlaw tradecraft--but when they're expertly staged and pitilessly lighted by McCarthy, they somehow mean more than in an ordinary thriller. No Country is suffused with Modernist melancholy, a sense that our civilization is dying and all we have ahead of us are endless salt flats of moral and cultural aridity. Sheriff Bell sees people like Chigurh as avatars of things to come. "I aint sure we've seen these people before," he growls. "Their kind. I dont know what to do about em even." Bell's gloominess sometimes verges on kids-these-days curmudgeonliness, but there...
Reagan gets good marks as well on a series of specific issues: 61% feel that he has made a good start on providing strong moral leadership, although that figure is a drop from 66% in a Yankelovich poll taken last May. He gets a 68% approval rating on the effectiveness of his relationship with Congress and 48% feel he is off to a good start in making Americans feel good about themselves again. Asked whether Reagan is seen as a leader they can trust, 52% said yes in the most recent poll, compared to 57% last May and 48% when...
...Harvard, and I think the medical community, have a strong feeling that we’re part of a global environment and that we have a moral obligation to reach out across the world,” said Dr. Benjamin P. Sachs, who serves on HMI’s Board of Directors. “If they call up and say they want advice...we have a structured way of doing that through...
...surprising thing I keep hearing whenever I’m asked about my classes and I mention that class in, say, moral reasoning, is a few groans and mumbles of sympathy, then a declaration of fear. When I told a girl studying natural sciences (something abbreviated and pronounced “natsky”), she looked at me in pity, then said, “Thank God I don’t have to write papers anymore. I stopped at 16, and I can’t write them anymore.” Paper writing suddenly sounds like an unfortunate...