Word: good
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...claim morality can be based? Why cannot these laws be altered by the individual to suit himself, if they themselves are not grounded in a deeper reality? If charity has no reality except as a pragmatic mode of behavior, an individual could logically devise his own morality when his good appears to conflict with society's good. It then becomes a matter of who has the best opportunity and the most power...
...Johnson likes to think of himself as the descendant of a proud old plantation family. On his mother's side, he is. In the ante-bellum days the family estate near Leesville was a showplace of the state, with white mansion house, hundreds of slaves, fine horses and good bourbon. There was even a Confederate colonel in the picture: Grandfather James Louis Arthur, who rode proudly off to join the Army of Robert E. Lee, returned to live out his days selling off acre by acre to keep up the old mansion...
Louis Johnson's own father had no plantation. He was a grocery clerk in Roanoke who married Katherine Arthur, the colonel's daughter. A man of good family, little money and less education, Marcellus Johnson taught his son the value of an honest dollar, taught him to think and speak for himself, prodded him on with the fierceness of a man who has missed opportunity himself. After his counsel, no one had to teach Louis Arthur Johnson to get out in front and stay there...
...time he graduated, Louis Johnson had been three-time president of the law school, vice president of the oldest university Y.M.C.A. in the nation, secretary-treasurer of the Civic Club. He was also a crack debater, and a good athlete (boxing and wrestling). To the despair of some classmates (and with the help of a photographic memory), he had also made top grades without even seeming...
...Good House . . . Dime Defective . . . Avon Books. All the Girls We Loved, by de Percds, a new Hemingway. Two bits. What the hell...