Word: moral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There's a little old Calvinist in the woodpile, too. One reason why modern man has troubles with his emotions, said University of Illinois Psychiatrist Richard L. Jenkins, stems from the Protestant Reformation, "which increased the number and severity of the moral taboos and denied the certainty of forgiveness through the confessional and penance." A man whose "halo is too tight," said Dr. Jenkins, suffers from too many inhibitions, and may wind up in a doctor's office with an obscure headache...
...rebates on several 1948 issues that had not delivered all the circulation expected. It was the first cut by a major magazine since the depression. Though Curtis magazines base their rates on the estimated circulation for six months ahead but do not guarantee the estimate, the Journal felt a "moral obligation" to cancel most of the 7½% rate increase that had helped make its October issue so rich (TIME...
Advantages to be derived from a formal football league would also include regularization of scholastic entrance requirements and eligibility rules for "young men of sterling moral character, who, fortuitously, can also do things to or with a football," and more serious attention to related problems of scholastic aid for academically qualified athletes. Organization would also bring more orderly arrangement of schedules and an incentive to college football in the growing competition with professionals...
Most of the students are watching the cold war with the air of gamblers waiting to place their bets. Says Hallstein: "They don't yet see which of these principles is more persuasive-government founded on power or on moral principles. In the German tradition are elements of both. You will not find many students who make a clear choice between east and west. They feel it may be dangerous to take a stand...
Catalina is not to be taken seriously; every chapter asserts this, and the last scenes, with Catalina having become a famous actress, make it more than plain. The book is a suave and ironic rewriting of the classic morality tales of English literature, its lesson as plain as the moral of A Christmas Carol or The Great Stone Face. Since it is written by a craftsman, Catalina has enough interest and enough humor to keep it going, and not too much of anything-not too much of the supernatural to be unbelievable, not too much wit to tax the reader...