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...life with Miss Watson and the Widow Douglas has become. His complaint could serve as a harsh but not wholly inaccurate description of Rawles’ book. Rawles—or perhaps those marketing her—seem to have failed to recognize that the moral complexities My Jim purports to expose are already present in Huck’s own narrative. While Rawles has provided a reasonably interesting supplement to Twain’s book, her “nuanced critique” articulates few moral problems that weren’t already implicit in the work...
Fine then. So let me bitch. To do so I will use the aforementioned moral framework. In this situation, my friends and I opted for pragmatic utilitarianism, avoiding conflict to maximize safety and minimize pain. But looking back on it, I wish that I could have mustered a little Kant in me and called the man out on his ridiculousness...
...arts section of the well-trafficked Christiananswers.net gives Constantine a moral rating of “offensive” on its scale from “offensive” to “excellent,” but raves about the “fresh visualization of things that really do exist...
...extracts from period movies, music, and television to recreate the rocky history of Deep Throat. The low-budget pornographic movie became both “the most profitable film in motion picture history” (according to the film’s tagline) and the cause of a national moral and legal debate. The culmination of this First Amendment contest was the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1973 ruling that pornography be defined by “community standards” and kept from the public arena except in cases of “redeeming social value...
Robbins’ good humor is all the more surprising considering the powerful moral conscience that goes along with his earnestly dapper looks and rakish charm. Those qualities could have bought him a breezy, pleasant kind of stardom, but Robbins has chosen the high road with weighty films like 1995’s death-row drama Dead Man Walking and 1999’s Cradle Will Rock, about leftist theater in the Great Depression, both of which he wrote and directed...