Word: moralist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like any satirist, Author Schneider also considers himself a moralist. Yet his moral is perhaps the worst thing about the book. The old machine boss grew out of the necessities of ward politics and immigrant life, just as the new TV-conscious politician is shaped by the realities of mass education and mass sophistication. Both types can be corrupt, but the most corrupt thing in politics remains the destructive, naively cynical idea that all politicians are crooks-or admen...
Your masterly Aug. 1 article on Goya is another timely blow in your Art department's strategic defense of the traditional values of humanistic art against the idiocies of anti-moralistic modernism. Especially in two phrases do you capture the crisis of ethics in modern art today in all mediums. First, when you speak of Goya's Disasters of War as handling "only villains and victims," for this is what modern editors precisely wish modern fiction and modern drama to delineate. Secondly and more important, when you add, "Goya was a moralist," for there you strike...
...needed two husbands, behaved outrageously with both, but was so genuinely lovable that neither could live without her, and all three wound up living to gether. In Volume II, Except the Lord, her first husband, Liberal Politician Ches ter Nimmo, had his say and explained how a willful, lusty moralist used his wife, his brains and his political savvy to rise from a small-town spellbinder to the peerage and a Cabinet post. In Not Honour More, Husband No. 2, Jim Latter, gets his chance to speak up. A simple man of good will, he tells how he gets...
...abject recantation of his life's work. For this, Author de Santillana offers plausible reasons. Galileo was in his 70th year, ill and afraid. Moreover, he was a devout Catholic. "He had realized at last that the authorities were not interested in truth but only in authority . . . Moralist historians . . . forget that he was a member of the Apostolic Roman communion and had to submit in some...
...beyond him. And, of course, you're sowing the seeds of all these frightful intellectual problems later on, when the child gets older and begins to think for himself, and he is confronted by all the evidence which suggests that God's purposes are anything but loving." Moralist Self-Righteousness. Replied Mrs. Morton: "Well, I couldn't disagree more. My experience is that . . . what people like and don't like bewilders small children . . . Whereas in the Christian home you're appealing from the central relationship of the child's life-his relationship with...