Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presses and organized Arab clubs, Author Antonius insists that Arab nationalism has now become essentially a matter of self-preservation. Admitting that nothing but harm can come out of the terror now raging in Palestine, he insists that physical violence by the Arab is the "inevitable corollary of the moral violence" done the Arab, that Arab terrorism in Palestine does not need German or Italian propaganda to foster...
...official photographers went along on this conquest of the Empire of the West. But on the sloop Dale there was one William H. Meyers, a gunner who had been recommended as a "good seaman, a good Navigator and of moral worth." Gunner Meyers also had the recorder's instinct. His 28 watercolor drawings, virtually the only pictorial record of the war in California, are a favorite possession of Navy-lover Franklin D. Roosevelt. In one of them, Bombardment of Guaymas (see cut). Artist Meyers showed himself firing the middle...
...problem, John Jay Chapman wrote in 1924: "College loyalty is the only religion the schoolboy knows. . . . And this religious idea is kept alive in him by the vision of the ultimate college examinations--the Clashing Rocks through which he must pass to save his soul alive. . . . Thus an enormous moral pressure is put on him to make him do an intelligent thing--and this on an urchin who has never been taught to use his mind." He and others shuddered at the mania for size which had seized the wealthier schools, the turning of headmasters into highly efficient administrative officers...
Tough Nuts. The story of the prolonged Brest-Litovsk negotiations and the subsequent short but eventful history of the Ukrainian Republic is told in a scholarly book by British Author John W. Wheeler-Bennett, The Forgotten Peace.* The moral drawn by Mr. Wheeler-Bennett suggests that Herr Hitler may find himself swimming in trouble rather than prosperity should his Ukrainian campaign be successful...
...Moral. Had Faulkner been content to let The Wild Palms rest with the convict's story, the book might have become a classic of involuntary adventure. It is a pulsing, racing story, a kind of hysterical Huckleberry Finn, its humor at once grotesque and shrewd, its moral at once grim and humane. The convict, with his thoughtless courage, his exasperation at the titanic forces unleashed against him, is Faulkner's most original and attractive character. And the whole book is conceived in the grand manner. Faulkner makes you feel the terrible fragility of man's levees, boats...