Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Most students at Harvard know Robert Coles as the professor of the immensely popular General Education 105, "The Literature of Social Reflection." The course catalog describes it as "an examination of selected novels, essays, poems, and autobiographical statements which aim at social scrutiny or at a moral critique of a particular society," and devoted students have been known to swear that "this class will change your life." Is Robert Coles really that good? Well, Coles does have a Pulitzer Prize to his credit, not to mention over 50 books. These are books on writers, philosophers and social activists, as well...
...moral, I guess, is simply not to let yourself be cornered early on. For while all of our social roles here at Harvard are eventually cemented, in the beginning the mortar is still soft, and there is yet time for any brick to be rearranged. The decision to do so is one that only each of us, individually, can make...
...taxpaying American, you will not vote. And everyone wants to make you feel bad about it. MTV may not have a problem with misogyny, gay bashing or pouring champagne on the chests of bikinied women in the name of high-volume pimping, but it draws its line in the moral desert at staying home on Election Day. I've noticed, however, that it has quieted down on the whole Rock the Vote thing ever since Jesse Camp won the Wannabe a VJ poll...
...about the future? First of all, I can see that I am going to be a martyr one of these days. Sometimes I hope that it will happen shortly. You ask me who gives me moral support. My mother, who keeps praying for my safety. Every time I come back, after every shooting, I kiss her hands and ask her to wish for victory for the Muslims...
...child in Poland, Anne Skorecki Levy survived the Holocaust; as a grandmother in Louisiana, she confronted ex-Klansman David Duke in his run for Governor. Powell, a Tulane University history professor, tells this tale with wonderful narrative grace and moral force. He deftly explores ethical compromises and nuances: the Levy family's decision to pass as Aryan during the war; the struggles between the assimilated Reform Jews of New Orleans, reluctant to stir up trouble; and the tight-knit "New American" club of Holocaust survivors who insisted on aggressively bearing witness against neo-Nazis...