Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Southeast Asia, and considers Nixon's Vietnamization plan as not inconsistent with that goal. He sees three main reasons for our continuing involvement in Vietnam: "The strategic importance of Southeast Asia for the free world," the "question of defeating the Communist strategy of the peoples's war," and a "moral obligation" to other nations who have fought because they thought we're with them." Keene believes in the domino theory. "If we win, we're more assured of no more wars-if we lose, there will be more wars...
...graduates of the 1967 march, the McCarthy campaign and the battle of Chicago. Looking back at the peace movement, one can see that many of its aims were highly elitist: to construct a coalition of anti-war politicians, professors, lawyers, doctors, writers, students and intellectuals and form a moral witness which would force the rest of the nation into an admiring submission. The Civil Rights movement-probably the closest thing the sixties saw to a "poor people's movement"-created a perhaps unavoidable fear in the poor white Southerner's mind that he was being singled out by a Northern...
...current despair must include some real answer to the agony of Vietnam. But the Left owes some responsibility to the American people, too: to put forward some ideas of how their lives can be improved and how their nation and planet can be kept livable. It is not a moral act to bring the nation crashing down upon their heads...
...either czar or commissar, the writer has emerged as the last authoritative voice of conscience. Tolstoy protected peasants against religious persecution, and Pushkin nurtured democratic ideals that inspired the 1825 Decembrist uprising. Gorky sought to restrain the more brutal urges of the Bolsheviks, and Pasternak remained a symbol of moral values. Solzhenitsyn is aware of the power-and perils-of the writer's role. "For a country to have a great writer is like having another government," says one of the prisoners in The First Circle. "That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones...
...rising crime have added not only social hazards but also economic costs to everyday life. When a house is burglarized or a school vandalized, almost everybody has to pay some part of the bill-through higher insurance rates. Changes in society, including the real or imagined decay of moral standards, have also exacted a toll. Insurance executives used to assume that loss claimants were honest; now the presumption is that many people cheat a bit. Greedy motorists and crooked repairmen conspire to kite repair bills and split the dividend. Noting that fire losses have climbed 15% so far this year...