Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Partial starvation is often a sociological problem. In Greek Catholic countries the religion calls for fasting on almost half the days of the year. Hindus fast for days to solve their moral problems. Saint Gandhi has fasted 21 days without appreciable harm...
Almost every message includes some remark derogatory to the Watch and Ward Society. "A splendid victory over the smut hounds," and "Congratulations on your escape from the clutches of the moral snouters," are examples...
...sordid and vulgar spirit which at times apparently engulfs the masses of our people, magnifying money and the power which it conveys as the dominating forces in our national life. . . . Nor is it a negligible circumstance that public opinion is at times insensitive to the insidious threat of moral turpitude in high places, so that even a grave offender may be retained in public office...
...Translated by Van Wyck Brooks-Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). Henri Frederic Amiel's (1821-81) chief claim to fame is that he wrote a diary. Enough of its 16,000 pages have been published to prove its author one of the most fully confessed men in history. Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Geneva, director of Geneva's Conservatoire, author of a few volumes of bad verse, friend of women, he led a not-unmethodical life, let hardly a day pass without recording his actions microscopically in his journal. First partly published in 1882-84, Amiel...
...Quiet on the Western Front, Her Privates We is curiously like it in tone: in its quiet admiration of some men's courage and cheerfulness, its despair and hatred of a subhuman way of life that uses men to stop bullets, feed rats. Her Privates We points no moral, needs to point none...