Word: moral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State Department, weighing the military argument, still clung to the hope that ERP plus diplomacy might be enough. Privately, the highest Cabinet officers pleaded with legislators for universal military training because of its "moral effect on the Russians." Their argument was full of contradictions. One top administrator summed them up: "We are sure Russia doesn't want war any more than the U.S. but she has set in motion forces which she cannot control...
...very well to say that Mark Hopkins could teach on the end of a log: his subject was moral philosophy. His brother Albert, who was a scientist, needed a laboratory. In the century since the Hopkins brothers, education has rolled off the log and become one of the nation's biggest industries; though it has spent millions on its factories it needs two billion dollars more. Where will the money come from...
Movies these days are apparently gravitating toward non-fiction. At any rate, almost on top of the recent "Call Northside 777" comes another documentary film, taken bodily from the files of the U.S. Narcotics Bureau. What is more, it carries through it a Moral Principle, hidden by the plot, to be sure, as cleverly as the smuggled opium is hidden from Customs, but which still serves to elevate the movie above the level of common melodrama...
Hung on the framework of a real case which could not be more exciting, the picture presents a wealth of argument towards "One World." Yet this is not the painfully obvious propaganda that Hollywood is so prone to wallow in. The moral is not forced down our throats, but contained naturally in a factual document, and thereby carries all the more weight. As a matter of fact, the film had its premiere before the UN at Lake Success. Movies like this are what make the condition of the American moving picture industry seem not so hopeless after all. E.P.R...
...define the ultimate goodness of man," Niebuhr told his Congregational Church listeners. He cited one preacher whose wife brought a tape measure to church to test whether girls' skirts were within moral limits...