Word: morale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Worried last week was the venerable, stoop-shouldered Bishop of Winchester by the British public's "strange complacency" in the face of blackout road accidents-18,000 deaths since the war began. With high moral fervor, but not too much logic, the Bishop demanded "whether the continued spectacle of suffering may not be dimming the compassion which normally we feel." Whether or not British compassion was dimming, within eight London days...
...spiritual fervour and its political influence. . . . The young people of the class to which Bunyan belonged, [the class which produced] the Wesleyan local preachers and the Salvation Army [today] have no understanding of the possible dignity and beauty of life which Bible-reading teaches, and no appreciation of moral values...
...full-length cartoon movie, profiting from the shortcomings of its predecessors, is notable for its freedom from the puppeteering of Snow White, the savage satire of Pinocchio, the artiness of Fantasia, and the woolgathering of The Reluctant Dragon. Like Three Little Pigs, Dumbo is a catchy fable with a moral...
Pierre van Paassen understands that the dilemma of pur time, which enabled the Nazis to take power, which still keeps the democracies from fully effective action, is caused by the ideological bankruptcy of the right no more and no less than by the moral bankruptcy of the left. He seeks to by-pass this dilemma by an appeal to conscience, and the force of his fervors lies in part in this simplification. For as a social seer he is really only asking a question. It is as old as Adam and still unanswerable: "Where is thy brother Abel...
Generous and foolish Americans, stir yourselves to a moment's reflection! It is only nations deficient in intelligence and moral purpose that can conceive no conclusion of conflict except the crushing of an enemy, even when that enemy is ready to renounce a wicked leadership. And in this case, the cost of such mental and moral deficit (responsibility for which must lie heavily on our universities as well as on Washington) must be the ruin of Europe in long drawn out war and the endless slaughter of our youth. The best of England has no such desire...