Word: moral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blow up not only Bread Crumb, but self, beard and hunter. At the moment of crisis, a sparrow snatched Gunpowder from the hunter's brush and was heroically destroyed when Gunpowder exploded. Bread Crumb, meanwhile, came to his appointed happy end. The hunter ate him. Platonov's moral: "Bread gave the hunter strength. Gunpowder wanted to singe the whole world but only burned a sparrow." In Baba-Yaga's Russia such a feeble, artless fable would have had a hard time finding a publisher. But in Soviet Russia its publication evoked a thunderstorm. Pravda blasted: "Reeks...
Mixture as Before. Such synthetic crusades, a trademark of Hearst journalism, are unlikely to survive their inventor. No one else in his empire would dare show such a grand, bland disregard of news values. The campaigns come in three basic sizes, to fit local, moral and national issues. But the strategy is always the same...
...attitude is adopted, the tutoring school may make secure the foothold which it has regained. The small sector of the student body which has succumbed to the lure of the harpies can befoul the whole College, and the time for opposing action is now. The University should use every moral and legal pressure at its command to eradicate this disease before its contamination can spread...
Freud regarded anxiety as foreign, unfriendly and destructive. But Mowrer believes that conscience and the anxiety it produces can be man's good companions. Under proper treatment, anxiety can be transformed into guilt and moral fear, to which unhappy man can make some realistic readjustment. Mowrer's prescription: a changed attitude toward social authority and its "internal representative," anxiety. If man's attitude is not changed, he will continue to seek relief from anxiety in such futile devices as tobacco, alcohol, gambling, "sexual monomania," gluttony...
...social" sciences, said Conant, should stop being coldly neutral toward "value judgments." They should take a moral stand, like Medicine, which comes right out and admits 1) that life is better than death, 2) that health is better than sickness, and 3) that the well-being of people is important. Conant suggested that the social sciences agree to a kind of Hippocratic oath which would state as their objective the doctoring of democracy. "The empiricism of the past may be a sufficient guide for the masters of a police state," he said, "but an open society with our ideals requires...