Word: morale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enough to complete the four-years requirements at Harvard in three years with cum laude ranking, and a Phi Beta Kappa key. and only recently I managed to answer TIME'S general information test 97% correctly, so the old faculties seem to be working reasonably well. From the moral aspect, I have never been in jail, am living with the same wife I married 22 years ago, and still pass the plate occasionally. Financially, I am an officer or director in some dozen assorted corporations, able to keep two children in college with an occasional steak at home...
...leading audiences up the mountain, he has held out bold and attractive visions of happy economic futures, plausible-sounding and easily-attained, in most of the sprightly, bright, informal, argumentative volumes he has written in the past eleven years. Interspersing his books with anecdotes, personal reminiscences, moral tirades against waste, he has always discussed human problems as an economist, economic problems as an evangelist, political problems as an engineer, and philosophic problems as an irascible citizen who wants to know why something is not done. Last week Stuart Chase offered a typical volume to stand beside his The Tragedy...
...would mean to the world if Hitler surrendered to God. Or Mussolini. Or any dictator. Through such a man God could control a nation overnight and solve every last, bewildering problem. . . . Spain has taught us what godless Communism will bring. Human problems aren't economic. They're moral, and they can't be solved by immoral measures. They could be solved within a God-controlled democracy, or perhaps I should say a theocracy, and they could be solved through a God-controlled Fascist dictatorship...
When a writer's imagination is as great as moral indignation, he is likely to produce a fantasy. In an environment of pure invention, heroes are twice as heroic. villains twice as villainous and life's follies doubly absurd. Toward the petard of such celebrated masters of adult make-believe as Jonathan Swift and Samuel Butler. Thomas Stanley Matthews has hoisted himself with a nightmare called The Moon's No Fool...
...successively a prostitute, a torch-singer, a dancing partner, a captive; where his fashionable companions turn into policemen and thugs who are chasing him everywhere; where his beloved changes her being whenever he tries to embrace her. Thereupon, too, The Moon's No Fool takes on its elusive moral tone as Author Matthews suggests the evil consequences and addled wits that follow from self-deception and acceptance of worldly standards. Ben is saved from drowning and from his twisted view of life by the despised Miserable Sarah. He goes back to the house party, weary and wiser, to face...