Word: moral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wolfe and Rosenthal, sure that he did, report hypnotic effects that make Svengali* look like a tyro. They claim that hypnotism has cured numerous cases of psychoneurosis, made childbirth painless and alcoholics sober. They reassure prospective patients by saying that no one can be forced to act against his moral principles while in a trance (e.g., a girl cannot be hypnotically seduced if she does not want to be; if she does, the authors add gravely, "hypnosis is an unnecessarily involved and roundabout route...
Victory at Montreal. An austere, hard-driving administrator, Sir Oliver was brought up under the stern eye of his theologian father, made a brilliant record at Oxford and stayed on to become a don and dean of Queen's College. He was a professor of moral philosophy at Glasgow when he was drafted into the Ministry of Supply...
...South, says Niebuhr, the evangelical churches could not cope with the moral issue of slavery and therefore channeled their energies into "a scrupulous legalism, expressed in extravagant rules of Sabbath observance and a prurient attitude toward sex problems." In the North, evangelicalism "degenerated into that mixture of religious sentiment and the worship of prosperity, success and comfort which inevitably . . . obscures, rather than clarifies, the real issues of life...
Perhaps the two least good performances were those of Ralph Forbes and Frieda Inescort as Mr. and Mrs. Crampton-Clandon. Miss Inescort was so overshadowed by Miss Brook, as her daughter, that the moral force of her character never became quite so overwhelming as it should have. Forbes' portrayal of the blustering father was understanding, but at times slightly forced. In smaller character parts Walter Hudd was entertainly fusty as McComas, and William Devlin added a real touch to the last act with his Jovian portrayal of the positive ("You will, you don't think you will, but you will...
...arises. As an early bit of Shaw it might be considered a preliminary study for "Man and Superman," except that, although it treats the same subject a large part of the time, with the same philosophy, it does not restrict itself to the specific point of the Man of Moral Passion being caught by the life force. "You Never Can Tell" gets off some heavy fire at the actual process of courtship that the later masterpiece disregards, and it also expresses some wise sentiments about the out-of-dateness of last year's radicalism...