Word: moral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Modern psychiatrists, Mowrer said, have been a long while catching up. Freud's emphasis on repressed sexual energy helped put them on the wrong track. Human anxiety, reported Mowrer, is the result of dammed-up moral force, rather than dammed-up libido; as this force seeps out into a man's consciousness, he experiences it not as guilt about a real fault or sin, but as anxiety...
...office of President of the United States is one of moral leadership, and the President can often strengthen the psychological sinews and confidence of the nation by the use of "glittering generalities" which would not stand the test of critical dismemberment...
...condemning or attempting to justify the moral degeneration of the youths, the picture recalls "Crime and Punishment." Just as Raskolnikofi was by nature generous, warm hearted, and high spirited, so Giuseppe and Pasquale are portrayed as human beings who are gradually twisted by poverty and the demoralized period in which they are caught. Their's is the simple morality of friendship that does not permit "squealing." But even that is swept away when Pasquale--thinking he would save Giuseppe from being whipped--tells that Giuseppe's brother was involved in black-market dealings...
...rather ill-timed assertion of the superiority of the past. Yet Mr. Phillips' account of the Salem Federalists is enlightening. Jefferson in maritime New England was about as popular as Sherman became in Georgia. At the very height of Salem's prosperity, Jefferson's embargo (his "moral equivalent" of war against Britain) destroyed it. The Federalists, sympathizing with England rather than with Napoleonic France, had no confidence in Jefferson's motives or in his economics. A hundred vessels lay in the harbor, while the crews lived on charity, the shipyards grew idle, the ropemakers and sailmakers...
Then came Wolfe's difficulties. As his thick flood of words rolled into his publishers' offices, there to be diked and channeled, it became clear that Wolfe would never develop any controlling ideas that could give esthetic unity or moral significance to his work...