Word: moral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ultimate issue was peace v. eventual war. The immediate struggle was for control of the soapbox-for that, the Russians had demonstrated, was how they thought of U.N. The question was: How could the peace-loving nations prevent the Russians from using this potential focus of power and international moral rostrum to keep the nations divided and make peace a diminishing allusion...
...this formidable view, a British monk called Pelagius† took flat exception. Augustine's austere teachings, he felt, would inevitably lead man into a fatal moral apathy. Instead, he argued that all men have the free will to earn their own salvation by good works. Grace, said Pelagius, consists simply of man's natural gifts, God's forgiveness of sins to the baptized, and His issuance of instructions and examples...
...structure of contemporary society. The main task is to set people thinking about social questions, and to have them take seriously their own obligations. ... It is this practical problem . . . which must engage the attention of those who plan to save civilization by education, rather than the discussion of moral ideals by people who need only great books, a room and some company, in order to save...
...Everyman of Hammerstein's Morality is the son of a struggling, intensely moral country doctor. The play watches its hero from birth through incidents of his childhood and college days and of his life as a successful doctor to the rich of Chicago. Finally, it records his return to the faith of his father, as he departs from the big city to minister again to the good people of the land. Money, sex--all the usual temptations--attract Joseph Taylor, Jr., on his journey through Vanity Fair...
...terms of physical force, the Jews appear well able to fare for themselves on the basis of their World War II record alone. But more important, the moral, economic, and physical weight of the UN will lie directly behind partition. However, Arab threats are not considered too serious. Sections of the majority report urging economic settlement with them will, in time, have a very healing effect...