Word: moral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jove-bearded, pint-sized proprietor of a Chicago vegetarian restaurant, who says he has tasted no meat for 45 years. He hoped to get some 5,000,000 votes; 3,000,000 from vegetarians, the rest from "prohibitionists, anti-vivisectionists, anti-cigaret groups and other people of similar high moral principle...
Anti-Existentialist. Like many other Frenchmen, Sébille was "profoundly disturbed" by the moral decay and physical degeneration of French youth. The present was empty and the future bleak. This state of mind was played upon by Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre. Sébille, who is a jolly fellow beneath his solemn surface, reacted sharply against that philosophy of despair. What was "lost in the smoke of the past," he reasoned, had to be "recouped in the fire of the present...
...Right to Lie. Hocking would cut the moral props out from under the liars and strengthen the conviction of moral responsibility in the free press: "The right to be in error in the pursuit of truth does not include a moral right to be deliberately in error. . . . Since the claim to the rights of free speech and free press rests on duty of a man to his thought and to his social existence, when this duty is ignored or rejected-as it is rejected when the issuer is a liar, an editorial prostitute whose political judgments can be bought...
...period that almost completely lacks a balanced combination of emotional intensity and maturity in its writers. The author's obvious power in understanding character, together with a sort of revolted fascination for sordidness and degradation, make the book provocative and at the same time a little loathe-some. The moral twist at the end, which shows the most warped character to be the most responsible, is convincing, yet takes away nothing from the horror of contemplating these people, who presumably reflect the society of 1938 Paris...
Said Katherine Anne Porter: "The Hemingway 'school' has run its course. Renunciation of moral ideas, belief in violence and love and fear of death can only go so far. [Serious writers] are overwhelmed by the magnitude of the disaster which has taken place, to a point where it seems the individual voice doesn't matter. So many write small novels of bewildered souls trying to figure their way out. The trouble with proletarian novels is that they're written from the outside looking in. And what Freud has done! Those little case histories. Freud...