Word: morale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Philadelphia wondered what UNESCO was. A biscuit? A radio station? That Rumanian composer? The letters stood for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. It was dedicated to the proposition that "since wars begin in the minds of men . . . the peace must therefore be founded . . . upon the intellectual and moral solidarity of mankind." Few at its Philadelphia conclave disagreed with that proposition. Fewer still were sure they knew what it meant...
...parrot. His staple diet was bread, fruit, cheese and fish, his recreations walking and sailing, his routine "of an even, grey-paper character." "He [lives]," complained one of his friends, "in a state of disgraceful indifference to everything, except grass and fresh air. . . . Half the self-sacrifice . . . the moral resolution, which he exercises . . . would amply furnish forth a martyr or a missionary. His tranquillity is like a pirated copy of the peace...
...long as effective free speech in radio depends on the whims and political prejudices of soap manufacturers, the most influential media for influencing public opinion can be as rigidly controlled as a state radio monopoly. And at a time when America's moral position throughout the world is to rest on a defense of civil liberties, shortsighted actions of the type involving Shirer cannot be designed to strengthen that position...
...United Ministry to Students certainly joins with the students of Harvard in opposition to racial discrimination, regardless of its point of origin. However, the failure of moral embargoes in wordly affairs should teach us to implement moral opposition with every instrument available. Although the United Ministry cannot endorse the right of any student to patronize night clubs, we are very willing to join with all other groups in an attempt to close down the Club 100. As we see it, at least three issues are involved in the Club 100 controversy, and although the first is the primary point...
Maupassant's novel was a relentless demonstration of what a thoroughly corrupt man can do to get ahead in a thoroughly corrupt society. Its cynical moral: sufficient vice usually succeeds and goes unpunished, whereas halfhearted vice -like virtue - is likely to enjoy less spectacular rewards. Mr. Lewin's modification: vice generally gets too smart for its own good. George Sanders, who starred in both of Lewin's previous pictures and is a sort of staff Lothario, by now does this kind of work very efficiently. The supporting cast is competent and the picture is lovingly made...