Word: moral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French were still staggering under the moral shame of the occupation, filled with suspicions of one another and general listlessness. French peasants were reluctant to sell their produce for worthless francs; as a result, hunger stalked the cities...
...most shocking facts of recent history is the moral imperturbability with which democratic nations, like the U.S. and Britain, have handed over millions of people in eastern Europe to the inhuman mercies of a police state...
...history, their simple gesture might prove to be a moral aid to Europe as important in its way as material aid. For they had answered, for all free men to hear, the silent question posed by Petkoff's grave: "Am I my brother's keeper...
...fancy lady and implores him to come back and try to save what is left of their worldly goods and of their lives. He is just getting around to the latter project, with his first cooperation from her, when, after two long hours, the picture ends. The moral appears to be that money isn't everything...
...injection of a few Anglicisms and British accents, the play is more American than anything else. The focal point of the second act, a supposedly immoral letter, does not seem so terribly bad, and the author's obvious switch to English codes to support the validity of his characters' moral motivations, is a transparent device. Nor can the portrayels of intense emotion be palmed off as peculiarly English; they are poorly directed, and evoke very little. Sometimes they are ludicrous, and that adds to the evening's total of good fun at the Wilbur...