Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ultimately, standards of moral judgment can not just be decided by who has the votes during a staff editorial meeting or whose politics are favored by the majority of the staff. On sensitive matters such as the Frank case, it should be common sense, not the majority's politics, that decides...
...publications, solicited or not, certainly deserve to be read by students, yet central bins or baskets might prove to be viable alternatives. In any event, the Masters are justified in wanting cleaner hallways. Unfortunately, the Crimson has adopted a knee-jerk position in a zealous rush to stake the moral high ground...
...WHITE SEASON. A white liberal turns radical after confronting the brutality of South African racism. Hard-edged drama that couples the pulse of popular fiction with the jolt of moral outrage...
...bottom leftist abstractions. He is the innocent man turned criminal by a wicked power structure; exiled by a corrupt judge who lusted after his wife, he returns vowing to show nobody any more mercy than he received. Mrs. Lovett is a singing, dancing and grimacing Mother Courage, sapped of moral scruple by economic privation and sheer will to survive. Beth Fowler and Bob Gunton sing nobly, and the production's intimacy includes a welcome emphasis on natural, unmiked sound. She enriches Lovett with a lifelong ardor for Sweeney and a pixilated fondness for romantic fancy. < He believably underscores the improvisatory...
Here it is, then, our annual antiapartheid movie. In moral thrust, A Dry White Season is exactly like its immediate predecessors, Cry Freedom and A World Apart. Once again a white liberal comes to radical consciousness after intimate confrontations with the murderous brutality of South African racism and suffers dreadfully as a result...