Word: moral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is a film that explores moral complexities. The wife is brought to her deepest ruthlessness not only by her own genuine love and her own innate weakness, but also by beginning to learn the worst about her husband, by perceiving that she may lose her lover through the best that is in him, and crucially, by her husband's most earnest efforts to face his own evil, and to be good to her. Moreover, the young lovers' sin of youthfulness is perceived with complete compassion, even by the husband...
...signers are: John A. Ciardi, Briggs-Copeland Assistant Professor of English Composition; William E. Hocking, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Policy, Emeritus; Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology; and Andre Morize, professor of French Literature...
...time you get this I will probably be dead," which is enough to shake a stronger man's nerve. His conscience hurts him, so he goes out to fight the duel with her husband from which he had been planning to run before he read the letter. The moral of this decision is not quite clear, but one gets the impression that he spent so much time reading the letter that he missed his train. Presumably he gets killed, but the audience never finds...
Communism, Theologian Bennett concludes, which began as a moral protest against social injustice, has turned into a tyranny because it has no transcendent faith to preserve it from idolatry, and no real understanding of the meaning of personal freedom. And all this was largely "because Christians did not see until too late the revolutionary demands in their own faith...
...yarn's hero is a Molnaresque playwright. Its presumable moral: when it comes to finding a happy ending for a sorry mess, only a playwright will do. The playwright's young godson is engaged to a beautiful prima donna. Late one night, godfather and godson overhear the lady, through thin walls, in a vocal and vigorous love scene with an actor. While the godson threatens suicide, the godfather hits on how to save the day: the guilty lovers had really been rehearsing-a play which has still to be written...