Word: moral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dismayed Her Crew . . . That night at Chicago Stadium he spoke before 20,000 Swedish-Americans who were celebrating the 100th anniversary of Swedish immigration to the Midwest. He pulled out that surefire issue-Communism-and used it as a sort of moral prop for his civil-liberties program, for slum clearance, old-age pensions, and higher minimum wages. The audience was friendly but calm...
Slaughterhouse or Survival? "The towering enemy of man is not his science but his moral inadequacy. Around the world today, laboratories . . . are feverishly pushing their research in the development of physical and bacteriological weapons which overnight could turn this planet into a gigantic slaughterhouse...
...this final Nemesis overtakes the pretensions of modern man, it will not be his science that has betrayed him, but rather the complete prostration of his moral values . . . Our generation is presented with what may well be the final choice between the use of knowledge to build a rational world or its use to arm, for one last desperate affray, the savage and uncivilized passions of mankind...
There is one common denominator, said Conant, that unites many Americans of otherwise highly divergent views: They all affirm that "the universe is somehow so constructed that a sane individual's acts are subject to moral judgments under all circumstances and under all conditions...
Frightful Shadow. In spite of his lifelong preoccupation with moral struggle and theological terms, Gide has said that he is an atheist and expects to die as one. He has also said: "I am neither a Protestant nor a Catholic; I am simply a Christian." Like other devout atheists, he is deeply concerned with God, and an earnest reader of the Bible. His Journals and, indeed, almost all his books have religious overtones. Sometimes a Biblical text haunts him for hours at a time: " 'Except a man be born again.' All this morning I repeated these words...