Word: moral
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exceptions to this consensus had been filed. The New York News humphed editorially: "Nevertheless, we'd rather see seven reels of Ginger Rogers, Jeanette MacDonald or several others. . . ." And last week the New Masses, following its Marxian line, grumped that Disney had bowdlerized Grimm's "savage and moral" tale, had turned out a version "a little too genial," with "too much of the trees-in-the-breeze quality...
Though it has no ghost, Boundary Against Night has almost everything else- spies, detectives, a conspiracy hatched after dark in a deserted church; 3 mad philosopher who sees the coming of complete moral darkness over the earth; a blind hero; a section devoted to Boston during the police strike (which appears from this account a bigger show than the French Revolution) ; a mass of characters, largely Irish, drawn about equally from the police and the underworld; returned soldiers, as embittered as they are eloquent; three suicides, a rape, a robbery and a final thundering climax in which a crazy policeman...
...portraits of the good people of Boston, or to take without question the many scenes in which they act with violence. Boundary Against Night nevertheless melodramatizes its central point: that a society which falls into panic when a few policemen leave their beats is badly in need of a moral housecleaning...
...students are admitted to college merely on their ability to obtain high grades at school, and to pass the comparatively simple requirements of the college boards. Little attention is paid to a student's ability to adjust himself to a new scholastic standard, to a new intellectual, social and moral environment. Too many men who lack sufficient moral and mental stability, arrive at college, and because they are unprepared to cope with entirely different conditions, they often are ruthlessly "flunked out." Many of these unfortunates are thus led to believe that they are complete failures, and the stigma that being...
...other two men in the story, however, are too orthodox to live in complete harmony with such spontaneous unrepresed people. The father, a Dutch banker, tries very hard to be broad-minded, but he can't quite make the grade. The moral behavior of the girl's "uh--friend," as the banker describes him, is the most delightfully surprising of all, even though it may be the hardest to reconcile with the idea of a real, consistent personality...