Word: morale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seems to like religious films. The Bells of St. Mary's, The Keys of the Kingdom, and Going My Way have met with a popular box-office reception. A soundly constructed religious film can compete with the trivial film, and, can perform a definite service and teach a moral...
These would be brave new deeds to put the U.S. in a brave new economic and moral position in the world. There was only one catch. How did Jimmy Byrnes's people feel...
...Driberg, cocky Daily Express columnist (pen name: William Hickey) and leftist M.P., was excited too. Buchman, he protested in the House of Commons, was nothing but a "soapy racketeer who never repudiated his admiration for Hitler and Himmler." Before the war his MRA (Moral Re-Armament) had been surrounded by an odor other than that of sanctity. Buchman's preoccupation with "key men" was believed to have made Hitler desirable in his eyes...
...such unsportsmanlike reporting, Siniavsky last week got the sack. Also fired was the "careless editor" who passed the story. The London Daily Worker virtuously pointed the moral: "Soviet journalism, while hard-hitting, enjoys a splendid reputation for accuracy and clean, aboveboard reporting . . . the violators pay the price. . . . The world's press would gain immensely in prestige if it were to take similar action against the daily purveyors of anti-Soviet slanders...
Stravinsky: The Song of the Nightingale (Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Eugene Goossens conducting; Victor, 5 sides). The Emperor of Japan's mechanical nightingale outsings the Emperor of China's live one, but breaks down in the attempt. When Stravinsky composed it in 1909, no political moral was intended. Performance: good...