Word: moral
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talks in unprintable expletives, believes supremely in his own powers of action. But Popeye grows strong on spinach; Sartre's characters in The Age of Reason feed on a pasty mixture of atheism and bad gin. The diet symbolizes existentialism's greatest weakness: the futility of attempting moral regeneration through a philosophy which denies religion or any ethical code...
Great Moment. The nation's moral position was clear. Even as Molotov in Paris raised the familiar cry of U.S. interference, George Marshall flung the charge back. The U.S. had already sent Europe some $9 billion in food and goods since the war's end; the U.S. had demobilized, unbidden, the greatest military power the world had ever seen...
Some Poetry. Before the dishes were cleared, Senator Hawkes arose, explained that he had to eat & run, quoted a poem while pointedly looking at Sir Frederick. Its moral...
...foreigners in Berlin the tale had a familiar sound. They remembered, dimly, having heard other versions, all pointing toward the moral that "the guilty flee when no man pursueth." But the Germans, as they passed the story around last week, knew it might be true...
...moral to be drawn from the story as originally printed, and the one the Sun and other papers did draw, is that the Atomic Energy Commission is unfitted for the job with which it is entrusted. Facts brought out in the sequel rather completely vindicate the AEC at the expense of the Army and corroborate the judgement of Congressmen who placed atomic energy in the hands of civilians. Yet the same group that fought the Atomic Energy Commission and the confirmation of its chairman, David E. Lilienthal, is still trying to put the atom back in the protective custody...