Word: morale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...condition and his messages. In protest against the continuing press ban, more than 100 Indian newspapers refused to print any news at all (TIME, Jan. 18). As agitation reached a climax the Raj compromised; and the Professor's friends persuaded him to accept. At stake was a moral issue, typical of the root evils in the tragic Indian political situation...
...Buchmanites were seeking draft deferment on the grounds that their Moral Re-Armament organization (successor to Buchman's sin-&-tell Oxford Group) was necessary to the nation's wartime morale. Prompt to disagree were New York Local Board No. 17 and the district Appeals Board. Yet somehow the Buchman men had managed to find friendlier ears on more exalted heads...
Said General Brown: "I understand that national headquarters of Selective Service looks with favor on Moral Re-Armament." He had precedent: Major General Lewis B. Hershey, national draft director, had granted a defense-occupation deferment to an MRA worker in June...
...total is far below that of Britain, which has 50,000 conchies. One probable reason for this seemingly inverse showing between a nation long at battle and a nation new to the war: many U.S. conchies had other reasons for deferment (e.g., dependents, occupation, mental, moral or physical disability) so are not listed...
...periphery and mechanics of music itself, which, unlike football, can't be made a universal pastime without cheapening it beyond recognition. It takes as much practice in listening to understand Beethoven as it does practice in reading to enjoy Shakespeare. It is also foolish to attach some sort of moral valuation to one kind of music, as so many people do, as if you would get an aisle seat in Heaven for listening to "good" music, and roast in Hades for fainting yourself with jazz. Tolstoi thought that all music was an invention of the devil, and he may have...