Word: moral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...economic and military crisis had not been matched by any such dramatic action on the U.S. side. Before taking off for the German treaty talks in London, U.S. Secretary of State Marshall had indeed promised certain limited aid-beginning next April. But to the Chinese, the absence of moral support drained much of the political effect from the promise. Every U.S. dollar was cut in value because the grudging tone of U.S. promises encouraged the Reds and discouraged the Nationalists...
Fables once proffered morals painlessly. Today they are seldom dispensed with as much ease except in a rare novel or motion picture. Such a picture is "Frieda" that may be considered all the more exceptional for having come out of war-scarred England. For "Frieda" convincingly expounds the moral that Germans are human beings and a blanket indictment of them or any people fails to recognize human differences. Hardly a palatable axiom in itself for many Englishmen today, but it becomes so at the hands of Swedish actress Mei Zetterling and a cast all of whom deserve equal plaudits...
...horse sense made asinine," Bode now calls it). A few years later, he was appointed professor of education at Ohio State University. Wherever he went, his agonizing doubts shadowed him. Though not by temperament a rebel ("I tried to be a good boy"), he could find no authority for moral standards in traditional creeds or dogmas. In desperation, he turned to the works of William James and Dewey, first to criticize, then to be converted...
Some have created work that may have more lasting value than some of their more successful contemporaries': John Wheelwright's granite-honest poems of moral and spiritual struggle; William Carlos Williams' angular free verse written between his rounds as a New Jersey physician. For most of Spearhead's contributors, however, experimentalism has become an end in itself, a sort of perpetual and meaningless joy ride...
...Moral Victory. In Perryville, Pa., the citizenry generously voted to allow Sunday movies-which left them just where they were: Perryville has no movie house...