Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...academic communities. He should "take initiatives welcoming young people into political and governmental processes." He should try to grasp why the blacks and the young fear repression; justified or not, that fear is a political reality with which he must deal. And the President should "use the moral influence of his office in new ways designed to reduce racial tensions and help develop a climate of racial understanding." None of those things can be done overnight, but the fact that Nixon was willing to make his chastisement public suggests-as Finch put it in bureaucratese-that the President at least...
...Mole. Juche and other radicals who went out of their way to ease the situation, a collective or two persisted in stirring something up from a near-vacuum. Should a similar situation recur, such groups might best be sternly isolated and restrained and confronted with the strong moral censure that comes with having numbers of their peers arrayed against them...
...With regard to the Supreme Court decision to enlarge the grounds for the exemption of conscientious objectors [June 29], it seems to this reader quite proper that no man should be compelled to kill, or to abet killing, in violation of his moral code...
...Long a military emblem, the eagle was adopted by Congress in 1782, partly at the urging of George Washington, who admired its association with courage, freedom, power and immortality. It was opposed by Benjamin Franklin, who complained that the eagle is "a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing. He is generally poor and often very lousy." Franklin preferred the turkey...
...Ralph Blum's The Simultaneous Man, most of the items in question fit snugly enough into a compelling plot designed to dissuade the itchy finger of exegesis. The book is at once a superior science-fiction story, a polished exercise in literary styles and a deeply personal moral statement...