Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Unfortunately principle and moral force are not the determining factors in modern-day martyrdom; media coverage...
...Moral Dilemma. In Philadelphia, the Rev. Paul Washington, black rector of the Episcopal Church of the Advocate and a man on good terms with many militants, calls the attacks on police "a kind of Samson syndrome" among individuals who find themselves without hope but can ventilate their sense of frustration by blindly striking back. Last spring a TIME-Louis Harris survey discovered that 40% of blacks between 14 and 21 felt that violence was probably necessary to win their rights; far fewer of their elders agreed. As a whole, the black community seems to oppose guerrilla fighting against the police...
...many senseless attacks to get Americans to the point where they will condone virtually any retaliatory move on the part of the police." TIME Correspondent Joseph Boyce, a black who spent nearly five years on the Chicago force, notes: "As a former policeman, I'm placed in a moral dilemma. I am aware that there is a necessity for 'law and order' in its most unadulterated sense. But I am also aware of the need to eliminate what has been a double standard in dealing with blacks and whites. I wish I could say that the sniping...
...margin of defeat for the Mc-Govern-Hatfield proposal was neither small enough to constitute a "moral victory," as Hatfield claimed, nor large enough to stand as an impressive endorsement of presidential policy. The willingness of more than a third of the Senators to take the unprecedented step of handing the President a deadline for terminating a shooting war was a clear warning that senatorial patience was precariously thin. Yet the vote also indicated Nixon's skill at maneuvering to take the steam out of each resurgence of opposition to his strategy for seeking peace...
...Express, the Nobel-prizewinning author explored the nature of human corruption perhaps more exhaustively than any other contemporary writer. When he died last week at 84, France mourned the loss not only of one of its most illustrious men of letters but also of a voice of moral assurance in an era of bitter doubt. "Mauriac," said Novelist Julien Green in a eulogy, was the latest in a line of Christian writers who have "put a great literary style quite naturally at the service of a great faith...