Word: morale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Would also like to know about others. "Others, who remembered Herbert Croly . . . who had given the magazine some of his own distinction and moral force, wondered why the New Republic wanted befuddled Mr Wallace to take his place." Can I find these others hanging around those some, or ar they a different crowd altogether...
...great part of the nineteenth century was charged with consciousness of the great moral purpose of humanity. The idea of progress, the shibboleths so political democracy and individual liberty, and, later, the yeasty doctrines of Marx and of derivative socialisms-all were conceptions based on a faith in the fundamental worth of man, his capabilities for improvement, and an altruistic desire to speed that improvement. Similarly, in the past decade of the "thirties, the American people were forced by depression to solve common problems through common action, to see the social consequences of individual actions and to become mindful...
...against a rising authoritarianism. After World War I, however, this notion returned to a complacent normalcy; materialism succeeded an idealism that had spent its energy in the right in this country reflects, in great measure, the fact that another unequalled war effort has once more expended and exhausted the moral energy within the nation...
...would be tragic, indeed, if another period of spiritual bankruptcy were to be foisted upon the United States and the world. What is called for is a 'tough-minded idealism,' to borrow Mr. Conant's phrase, that will utilize the moral and idealistic energy generated during the war for peacetime social goals, that will establish practical aims for common action. "Tough-minded idealists" are needed to lead and implement such a program. Only thus may this country preserve its moral leader shop among nations and continue to lead the way to peace and well-being...
Cambridge reactions to the incident indicated last night that Shapley would receive at least moral support from home. Richard Edsell, a member of the executive committee of the Massachusetts ICCASP, echoed the astronomer in calling the action of the committee "high-handed, dictatorial, and un-American...