Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Apart from the physical damage brought upon as by football is the moral harm through dishonest and mean methods of play taught by some coaches who are determined to see their team a winning one 'at any price...
...even accepted the stop-gap of humanism. For the young man of today is "amoral." Mr. Lindley speaks hopefully of this amorality with a fine disregard for the fact that the term "amoral" can have no meaning at all (unless it means immoral) for anyone to whom the word moral has a real meaning...
...Vagabond would never take issue with Harvard's President and her Fellows who considered Memorial Hall "the most valuable gift which the University has ever received, in respect alike to coast, daily usefulness, and moral significance." He would remind no one of Professor James, who lecturing in Emerson D, would glance across the heads of his listeners at the Gothic tower and exclaim: "Gentlemen, take Memorial Hall for instance. What else could you take it for!" Nor would he visit Memorial Hall sixty years after, to see the deserted dining hall, cramped Sanders Theatre, the squalid ruin of false tiffany...
...they follow. Mr. Smith is conscious that any prolonged appeal for Governor Roosevelt would fall on half-interested cars; what Massachusetts Democrats want to hear is the tale of '28, the tale of Republican bigotry, and hypocrisy, the tale of their unswerving loyalty. To recall to their minds his moral ascendancy, Mr. Smith has small need of polished periods, of intricate logic, of strict party loyalty; his battle is personal, best won by informality, candor, sneers and jibes. His leadership thus established, he need only mention his advocacy of the party ticket, and his audience will agree...
...delightfully uncertain nightmare, "Springtime for Henry" also introduces the libertine bachelor caught in the threes of "a pure love for a pure woman." There are some really excellent opportunities here for wit, satire, and unrestrained nonsense which Benn Levy utilizes to their full possibilities. Free from the elements of moral responsibility, and the philosophy of Bortrand Russell which ruin some very effective comic situations in "Cynara," this farce is not diluted with any common-sense...