Word: morale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...United Church presbytery meeting in Toronto last week, a committee made a stern report: the city once known far & wide as "Toronto the Good" has become pretty wicked. Said the committee: "Toronto is obsessed with the slippery condition of its streets when it should be concerned with the sliding moral values of its people...
...post-Renaissance chapter of history which made man the measure of all things. . . . We are witnessing the death of Historical Liberalism . . . which, like a sundial, is unable to tell the time in the dark, and which can function only in a society whose basis is moral...
Highly confused in spots, the story seems to be concerned with a search for hidden treasure. When the fabulous jewels and the gold turn out to be a disappointment, Sinbad springs forward to point out a wholesome moral: Where is true treasure? Sinbad [sweeping hand to heart]: "It's here! [clasping forehead]-and here! [sweeping Miss O'Hara into his arms] -and here...
During the war, Dr. Frank ("Soul Surgeon") Buchman and his bright-eyed disciples of Moral Re-Armament concentrated on the U.S. Last spring they bounced back across the Atlantic, to set about "changing" Europe (TIME, May 13) with their "ABSOLUTE HONESTY, ABSOLUTE PURITY, ABSOLUTE UNSELFISHNESS AND ABSOLUTE LOVE...
Archbishop John J. Cantwell of Los Angeles warned Roman Catholics that they may not "with a free conscience" see Duel, It was "morally offensive and spiritually depressing." Another churchman deplored the "shouting piety" of Walter Huston playing the "Sin Killer." The city's Federation of Protestant Churches charged that "wrongdoing was shown to win every conflict with the right." The Catholic Tidings, describing Duel's heroine, Jennifer Jones, as "unduly if not indecently exposed," called the film "far worse, in a moral sense" than Howard Hughes's outlawed The Outlaw...