Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...with existential hangups, essential for any future presentation of post-Dostoyevsky Russian drama. Gorky portrays a cross-section of the dregs of late 19th century Russian society with the typically Russian attention to the existence of God, the meaning of suffering and the futility of community. Surprisingly enough, the moral discussions that populate Gorky's low class world in lieu of action resonate well with students' rarefied sensibilities, as they did with the pre-Revolution Russian intelligentsia...
...where they are going; any attempts to reconstruct a past are shouted down as lies. These people simply exist in the inn, and their incessant friction attempts to find out whether an indolence forced upon them by an unjust society can have any meaning. With nothing better to do, moral posturing is pervasive...
...case that he didn't--at least, not quite yet. As counter-intuitive as it may seem, now is the time to be thinking about the next presidential election. In 2004 the next incumbent free-riding off the nation's economic success and the next challenger pledging to restore moral authority to the White House will invariably ask you if you are better off today than you were four years ago; now is the time to make sure that you can answer...
...Dick Morris gizmo called Clintonism was a triangulated centrism rigging an elaborate system of moral weights and counterweights to balance itself safely at the center of the conflicted American heart. Thus, for example, the leftish diversity-monger from Hope canceled welfare as we know...
...them the words of the nation as a whole. These are not insignificant tasks--they require someone to whom we can entrust the gravity and power of our collective voice--but politicians, who must seek votes, have rarely been any good at accomplishing them. A president who cannot command moral respect has thus failed in one of the most important, but least definable, duties of office...