Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...face to a mirror. The image, drawn with the most exhaustive research ever done into the lives of blacks in the U.S., was of shocking racism. It was tempered only by Myrdal's declaration of faith in a nation he admiredthat Americans were fundamentally decent and moral, and would overcome racism by working toward their ideals...
Whatever the historical judgment on his leadership, De Gaulle demonstrated the importance of those great intangibles in the calculus of power-moral force, will, style, vision. To many men, these are only words; they were realities to De Gaulle, realities that the world often distrusts and yet yearns for more than ever today. These qualities, as much as any specific accomplishments, will make his figure endure, just as the memory of another great-and even more controversial- Frenchman has survived through the years. As a young man, Charles de Gaulle composed a tribute to Napoleon Bonaparte that could serve...
...little revolution can be a dangerous thing. Especially when it comes without cost. An elegant critique of the American Corporate State means little if you follow it up by saying that everything will be okay because, "No one can take himself altogether seriously in bell-bottoms." And moral outrage-however correct-summoned up upon convenience for its publicity value produces atrocities like the U. S. Government's current prosecution of the son of a blue-collar family for murdering civilians in Vietnam...
...would have been higher had I been deemed by him "one of the leaders of the situation." In truth, that would have meant that I would have been a police officer-but that is patently not what the court had in mind. My only crime was to make a moral appeal (albeit an ill-conceived one) to the captain of the Cambridge Police. Thus while my defense was legal in form, it seems clear to me that my trial was political in content. I accepted my suspended sentence and probation rather than appealing only as a matter of personal prudence...
...typical American voter is "the forty-seven-year-old wife of a machinist living in suburban Dayton, Ohio." Her major concern is what the authors call the Social Issue, "a set of public attitudes concerning the more frightening aspects of social change": crime, race riots, campus unrest, pornography, and moral permissiveness. But-and this is where the Administration misread the book-she is not going to buy hysterical rhetoric and excessive reaction to these issues...