Word: morale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conductor Artur Rodzinski, haggard and unshaven, arrived in Salzburg three days late on his concert rehearsal schedule. Explaining his delay, he told friends that he and Moral Re-Armer Frank Buchman, attending an Oxford Group conference in Caux-sur-Montreux, Switzerland, had had a furious, long-drawn-out quarrel (Rodzinski did not say what about). Off to Rome on the next leg of his concert tour, the conductor asked a TIME correspondent to "spare me the doubtful honor of ever again calling me 'ardent Buchmanite...
...olive-green walls: "The Soviet Communist regime is not a regime of peace, and, indeed, it does not purport to be. It may not, and I hope that it does not, want international war. But, if so, that is a matter of expediency, not of principle ... It rejects the moral premises that alone make possible the permanent organization of peace . . . There is, says Stalin, no such thing as 'eternal justice' . . . Human beings have no rights that are God-given and therefore not subject to be taken away...
Ignoring the moral he had drawn from Gaillard's harmonious smoke, Greek Delegate Verdelis cried: "We have been most unfairly treated...
...world situation is serious because of a sharp division. On the one hand are those who claim to be seeking the welfare of the masses but who reject the moral premises necessary to make their efforts peaceful and fruitful. On the other hand are those who accept the moral premises necessary for the organization of peace but who have allowed their practices to seem routine, materialistic and spiritually unfertile. That division will gradually become less sharp if those who believe in moral law and human dignity will make it apparent by their works that their political practices are in fact...
...enthusiastic: "People tell me I didn't look bad. But usually, all the girls end up looking like Wallace Beery." The exception was 50-year-old Bea Lillie, who appeared on the television screen to be both young and beautiful. Miss Lillie's delicate moral reservation about television: "Isn't it going to cause a lot of drinking in the home...