Word: moralist
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...ingratitude was staggering, and Thayer rightly criticizes him for gulling his old friend Johann Mälzel out of the first-performance rights to The Battle Symphony, which Mälzel had commissioned. Perhaps least appealing of all, he was a self-righteous moralist who could denounce his brother Johann's wife as "an infamous strumpet" though he himself, says Thayer primly, "did not always escape the common penalties of transgressing the laws of strict purity." What Thayer meant, as he later explained in correspondence, was that Beethoven had contracted syphilis, probably in the course of certain "conquests" during...
...tribute to Mr. Cheever and his sympathetic reviewer, but, dear me, does one have to be a New England moralist to deplore "wife swapping"? MRS. ROBERT H. DARNTON Rochester, Mich...
...name-a habitation so truly seen in detail that it becomes more real than the town's tax rolls. But the easygoing realism that accepts wife-swapping or any impiety of evaded obligation with a sociological shrug enrages him, for at bottom he is a New England moralist...
...Freud, contemporary social critics enjoy tinkering around with their own perceptions, ordering them with analytical categories taken from the academe as well as with a journalist's feel for day-to-day events. However, in using this approach, modern critics have not ignored the austere tradition of prophet and moralist, one "crying in the wilderness." Of course, our better critics, the ones we can take seriously, are more sophisticated than a Jonah or Isaiah. Yet, as the old prophets did, men like Riesman worry a lot about what meaning human events might carry; they ask general questions about what life...
...Senator Smith's candidacy and Goldwater's resultant misfortune were, it would seems, avoidable. First, he didn't have to play into Senator Smith's hands by bellowing his most distasteful positions up and down New Hampshire. This tactic gave Margaret Chase Smith a chance not only for the moralist vote, but also for the ballots of the less belligerently conservative. The unexpected sincerity of Goldwater's announcement that the Republicans "couldn't get old Barry to change his sopts" may, in fact, have prompted Mrs. Smith's belated candidacy. Had Barry been more soft-spoken--and he certainly could...