Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Americans sift through more moral dilemmas in a week than people in earlier, more settled societies struggled with in a lifetime. Social/ethical debate has become our political theater - infuriating, entertaining, the stuff of tabloids and cable shout-shows. Culture wars sort us into moral tribes. Charlton Heston contemplates the Tribe of the Million Moms, and shakes his flintlock aloft, and roars to his own tribesmen, "Out of my cold, dead hand...
...religious and cultural factors. Radical new technologies are often seen as moral threats by conservative religious groups or as economic and cultural threats by political groups. Powerful single-issue voting blocs like the antiabortionists could arise. Or terrorists like Theodore Kaczynski...
...moral? On television, at least, seniority means squat. Although sinewy Rudy could probably best all those young pups in hand-to-hand combat, he mourned, "I don't even know what MTV means." Maybe the seals should start teaching that...
...enjoy really filthy campaigning, it is necessary to return to the Founding Fathers. In 1800, John Adams called Alexander Hamilton "an intriguant, the greatest intriguant in the world - a man devoid of every moral principle - a bastard...." If Jefferson should win the election (as of course he did), the Connecticut Courant warned, "Murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest will all be openly taught and practiced..." Of course, the vicious campaign rumor that Jefferson had sired several children with his slave Sally Hemings turns out to be true...
...Fitzsimmons says that the admissions office recognizes many more "types" of intelligence than Conant did. Referring to the work of Professor of Education Howard E. Gardner '65, Fitzsimmons says officers take into account intelligence in the form of artistic ability, musical skill, athletic prowess, moral reasoning and inter-personal skills when making admissions decisions...