Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...TIME: And the "moral" is often a phrase that appears in the middle of a book and again at the end. For "Shopgirl," the phrase is "It?s pain that changes our lives...
...catalogue claims, "from the particular places presented." This notion of distance is over-emphasized by the curators. Distance is a prerequisite for all modes of understanding landscape, and not a thematic motif peculiar to this exhibit. The thrust of From a Distance might more aptly be defined as a moral, ecological and sociological diagram of the tenuous and destructive relationship between humanity and nature in contemporary society...
Then, in one fell swoop 150 Harvard students and affiliates descended silently into the pit kids' domain--their community center if you will--in order to express their moral outrage at an assault on a Harvard student that was being investigated as a hate crime. The terrible spectre of an invasion of skinheads onto campus loomed out of the dark recesses of Harvard's collective imagination. The kids with the tattooes, with the shaved heads or green hair--they were the target of the protest, they were the skinheads. Or so Harvard to all outward appearances agreed...
...they, but Cheney and Lieberman at least come to the people not as sons, but as fathers. It's an important distinction. Age has little to do with it. Some men remain sons all of their lives. No man should become president until he has crossed the psychological and moral line into the responsibility of fatherhood. The same distinction will apply to mothers and daughters as women become regulars in presidential politics...
...comparable to the cost of a surgical abortion, the nation's largest insurance companies (including Aetna, Inc. and Cigna Corporation), have announced their intention to incorporate the pill as part of their standard coverage. Most significantly, these staunch supporters believe that RU-486 will help to erase the moral stigma associated with abortion in today's society. The pill privatizes the procedure by taking the intense focus of the debate off the highly-visible abortion clinics and dispersing it among hundreds of thousands of medical offices across the country. It grants both the doctors who choose to prescribe the pill...