Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...From the way he treats us, it is easy to see that God is a man." So said Madame de Tencin, Montesquieu's mistress. Historically hampered by archaic laws and antique moral codes, European women have accepted their lot much more readily than their American counterparts. Recently, however, growing numbers, taking a cue from their more combative sisters across the Atlantic, have launched their attack on male chauvinism...
...most striking aspect of Tracy Gray's advice to his peers is of course that he is rediscovering the role that parents used to play in the pre-technological era?moral guidance. Today's stress on technical knowledge has undercut that role; yet knowledge is multiplying so fast that parents might well return to teaching wisdom rather than facts that soon become obsolete. Tom Winship, father of four and editor of the Boston Globe, believes that for the past ten years the nation's children have provided the "energy and courage" for most social progress: civil rights, campus reform, ecology...
Whatever the merits of this theory, the young have not automatically gained moral authority. But parents are discovering that they cannot re-establish their own moral authority merely through laying down the law by fiat. The troubled parents of troubled children have only one real choice: listen...
...that he thought the U.S. was behaving almost as badly as Nazi Germany. I was shocked. I hung up." Chris persisted with dozens more antiwar calls from college, where he was managing editor of the Stanford Daily. "He took an almost Toynbee-esque line about the U.S.'s moral bankruptcy," says Harte, who stoutly resisted partly out of respect for his fellow Texan, Lyndon Johnson. "But finally my son got through to me. I realized that I didn't understand this war or believe that it was serving the nation's vital interests." So Harte did a hard thing...
...know to have been convicted of any criminal offense after that date "which under the laws of the United States or of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania would constitute a misdemeanor involving moral turpitude or a felony...