Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cadet when he enters stands alone unaided by anything but his own courage and character. That may seem dramatized but the situation is unique and results in the graduation of officers who possess a moral code and a fiber hardened by the granite existence of cadet life. It is only the strong who survive...
...confess to a vast sense of relief that I do not have to take sides either with Loyalist or Rebel.' He is glad he is not compelled to choose between right and wrong. Normal persons, and certainly the masses of the people, will feel horror at such moral disintegration...
Those who go in this week, will probably stay, not breathlessly, nor dewey-eyed, but merely out of curiosity. "Rags are more than riches when worn for virtue's sake" is the moral of "City Girl," a drab tale of seduction in wicked old New York. Phyllis Brooks in the title role does nothing to better a deplorably poor picture...
...bubbling enthusiasm for farming, Farmer Smart admits that his only successful crop so far has been "ideas, sensations, intuitions, feelings, sympathies, and delight in action." For city folk, his much-repeated moral is: Don't take up farming unless you have a "specialty"-writing, for instance. (In Ross County the average income per family is $572; Farmer Smart's minimum budget is $3,000.) Plain farmers might deduce a somewhat different moral. What is needed, they may decide after reading R. F. D., is not to teach writers to farm, but to teach farmers to write bestsellers...
Between its lines readers get a clear picture of the moral and cultural changes in the South in the ten years that the book covers, the questioning of old customs by little Confederates like Bayard, the persistence of old Southern conventions in situations that make them absurd. Thus, although Cousin Drusilla and John Sartoris have gone to war together, lived in military encampments, rebuilt the plantation, fought carpetbaggers, they cannot hold out against the good ladies of Jefferson. In the midst of domestic disorder, while Sartoris is killing two Republicans and holding an election at gun's point...