Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Police Terror. Since they seized power in a lightning coup nearly 32 months ago, the colonels, who have pledged to restore Greece's ancient moral values, have reacted with outraged indignation to isolated reports of mistreatment of any of the 6,000 or so political prisoners who have passed through their jails. To be sure, no international agency had been able to establish that a pattern of police terror existed in Greece. At the insistence of the Scandinavian countries, however, the Council's Human Rights Commission set up an eight-man subcommittee in early 1968 to investigate charges...
...MORAL INDIGNATION over the "Song My Massacre" has welled up all across the country. Few scandals have served so many purposes for so many people. It provided Time and Newsweek with striking covers last week; it has sold record numbers of newspapers. Politicians are quietly incorporating it into their arsenals of non-alienating polemic...
...beyond that, striking closer to home, is the tendency of this flood of moral outrage to legitimize the U. S. presence in Vietnam. For as soon as we focus our concern on how the war is being fought, we implicitly concede that it should be fought. Without this concession, indignation over the tactics of the war has no meaning...
There are not many avenues open for us to express our political opposition and moral indignation to the war in Vietnam. To the mammoth protests of October and November, this month we hope to indicate our choice for life over death for rehabilitation over destruction by foregoing our own food and contributing the proceeds to life-giving and rebuilding activities...
...intention of the proposed commission is not just to examine the evidence of specific incidents, but to "review the context within which the alleged acts occurred" so that policy and procedures can be changed, if necessary. "to restore our good standing as a moral leader among nations." the group's statement said...