Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...particular heresy of Americans that they see themselves as potential saints more than as real-life sinners. Seen in the transfiguring mirror of patriotism, the history of America is a record of triumph over adversity, moral earnestness and accomplishment. America's libertarian achievements and idealism certainly justify great pride; and the nation's technological record in taming nature is one of the world's wonders. But Americans have insufficiently considered the possibility that this record is also tarred with betrayals of the nation's democratic ideals, and that no nation has a solitary, superior claim...
According to Christian moral theology, the self-awareness of sin and guilt is a necessary prologue to sanctity; in the prism of psychoanalysis, self-discovery is seen as the first step toward sanity. Individuals are not identical with nations, but sometimes they are analogous. And thus it can be argued that only the nation that has faced up to its own failings and acknowledged its capacities for evil and ill-doing has any real claim to greatness...
...become a crime under international law. Nevertheless, the supremacy of civilized rules of behavior was enunciated in a U.N. report: "The fact that a person acted pursuant to order of his government or a superior does not relieve him of responsibility under international law, provided a moral choice was in fact possible...
...whom Penn Life selects to be the local managers are crucial to the system. Each is expected to be a father image to a five-man group of salesmen. The manager is trained more in lay psychology than in selling, and acts as a moral-rearmer when the salesman's spirit flags. "The manager's whole life, his home, his wife, his family, become the center of social activity for that sales force," says Beyer. "An army is disciplined out of fear; our men are disciplined out of loyalty to a leader, like a Cub Scout pack would...
Beeton's Book of Household Management -First Facsimile Edition, by Isabella Bee-ton. 1,112 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $12.95. An engrossing compendium of cookery, psychology, etiquette, management, legal, medical, moral and drainage information, which first appeared in England in 1861 and is still history's bestselling cookbook. "Men are now so well served out of doors-at their clubs, well-ordered taverns and dining-houses," the author points out, "that in order to compete ..." Any bride can finish the sentence. Mrs. Beeton, however, makes the role of bride only slightly less awesome than handling flight patterns...