Word: morale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sociology, the Ecumenical Movement. Courses would be divided into three-month periods, but students at Celigny would be urged to stay for at least six months before going forth "to present the Christian message to [Europe's] demoralized young people . . . and to build with them new forms of moral and social life on Christian foundations...
Died. Fred Albert Britten, 74, longtime Republican Representative from Illinois (1913-34), who fought for a big navy and moral rearmament, against prohibition and diplomats; in Bethesda...
...quite a trick to write of life & death, as Camus does, in terms of an almost total social and moral vacuum. He may get philosophical satisfaction from it. Most readers will call it philosophic doodling...
...much for the surface. Beneath the welter of detail of Hecate County life, beneath the venomous satire, Wilson has contrived a tight little allegory, set up against an inflexibly, moral Puritan standard that is reminiscent of Hawthorne. Although unlike Hawthorne Wilson has kept his story contemporaneous, the forces which compelled both men to allegorize are the same. Cut off from his Puritan heritage by the Romantic amoralism of the Transcendental movement which he distrusted and did not understand, Hawthorne dipped back into the seventeenth century. To Wilson, convinced that Western society is breaking up, appalled by Stalinism, the tensions...
...Young Ricardo de la Fuente, handsome and schooled in the mannered ways of the Spanish aristocracy," says this novel's blurb, "came to 16th Century Mexico because of a romantic entanglement which violated the moral code of his class and time." One of Ricardo's first acts on reaching his sugar plantation in the New World was to violate Lucita, an Indian slave-girl: he calmed his conscience by muttering that she was "scarcely more than an animal." And when he met his branded, filthy, full-eyed, Indian field hands for the first time, Ricardo's only...