Pauline, Son's schoolteacher fiancée, tries to season the dinner-table conversation with socially minded commentary on current events, bulletins about the declining state of the country's moral and physical infrastructure.
It happened like this: Feeling that my life had lost direction over the years, that I had strayed too far from the path of the righteous, I decided last winter to go back and take a Poor Richard refresher course, in the hope of reconfiguring my moral and ethical infrastructure.
Both in reliefs and in wall paintings, the figure compositions are reduced to schematic groups of the minimum number of standard human and celestial types needed to tell a moral story, without any infrastructure of significant form and execution.
The commission examined population within a 25 mile radius of each community, along with railroad and transportation infrastructure, the moral atmosphere, health and sanitary conditions and site suitability.
The United States has a moral obligation to restore the infrastructure that we destroyed in the war.
Our culture doesn't yet have the infrastructure — educational, medical, moral, the whole shebang — to handle the consequences of the recent revolution in genetic testing.
However, this had more to do with infrastructure than with any moral or legal complications arising from shooting a mentally ill person.
"Physical and moral wear-and-tear of the expeditionary Antarctic infrastructure" must be addressed in order for Russia to "systematically develop an influential presence" in the region, it says.
And there is an even deeper problem we face: For decades we have neglected the foundational infrastructures of this nation, both physical and moral.
It wasn't just a moral outrage but a legal one: in "A Deadly Interrogation," Jane Mayer explained how the legal infrastructure for torture had been constructed after 9/11.
