Word: moralist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...BATTLE WITHIN-Philip Gibbs-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Moralist Gibbs slickly manipulates the fortunes of the Haddon family to show how Britain faces up to war. As Dr. Haddon goes on his troubled rounds, his lady frets over their son Peter, in love with a friend's wife. Daughter Pearl is forced to choose between a German flyer and a nice American sergeant. Author Gibbs deftly solves the problems, or sends insoluble characters off to heroic death...
Upton Sinclair, 65, vegetarian, moralist, Socialist, muckraker, politician, agnostic, Californian, abstainer, feminist, movie producer, violinist, physical culturist, antiFascist, antiCommunist; friend of Jack London, Theodore Roosevelt and Albert Einstein; one of the most prolific U.S. authors (67 books, 500 pamphlets); prohibitionist son of a bibulous father and twice-married critic of American marital habits, last week gave book-length vent to his latest enthusiasm: Franklin Roosevelt...
...working out of Harry's little plan provides some nice edge-of-the-seat suspense, and it has some nice sardonic consequences. The trouble is that there are too many consequences. For Playwright Job is overconcerned, more as a wry joker than as a moralist, with showing that getting away with murder can be even worse than not getting away with it; and he continues to make the point long after both Harry and the audience have caught...
...least in part from the lack of another faculty: the faculty which theologians still call charity. Nowhere, in the whole of the volume, does any character act out of genuine kindness, or even out of those uneasy spurts of selfless confusion which, in actual living, so complicate the moralist's task...
...back and wash its mouth out. Its entire effect was vitiated merely by inserting near the beginning a telephone scene wherein Melvyn Douglas discovers that the flame he is playing with is really his wife. From then on his adulterous activities become husbandly jesting acceptable to the thinnest- lipped moralist. The trouble with the picture now is that it not only fails to offend, but fails to excite. The best fun in seeing it comes from noting where the ghost of its former salacious self, keeps bobbing up between the lines and leering. But wherever Sex has stuck its head...