Word: moralist
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Order of Aphrodites. But from the moralist's point of view, the worst was to come. It was the era of the great royal mistresses (Maintenon, Pompadour, Du Barry) and of the monsters of sex (notably the Marquis de Sade). It.was also the Age of Enlightenment, and medical science was eagerly enlisted in the service of love. Late in Louis XIV's reign, a certain Dr. Venette soberly advised that dried Egyptian crocodile kidneys pounded into a powder and diluted in sweet wine made the perfect aphrodisiac...
Deeming himself "an optimist, a realist, and in a sense a moralist," Pauling said, "We must not think war is going to take place. World leaders know it's impossible. It is ... incompatible with everything that is human." He continued, "I am happy that the world is forced to become a world of law and order rather than anarchy, a world of morality rather than national immorality...For the first time in history it is possible for national diplomats to be moral men, because self-interest and morality now coincide...
...Sherman Adams, the White House and the U.S. knew that things would never be the same again. Adams was the man who decried the influence peddling of the Truman Administration, the stern moralist who had banished Republicans from the Administration at the first hint of errant behavior, the walking book of ethics dedicated to keeping the Eisenhower Administration spotless, as Candidate Eisenhower put it in 1952, "clean as a hound's tooth." This same Sherman Adams was now being held up in headlines from coast to coast as a man who lent his influence to a friend in trouble...
...inappropriate things and then forcing others to recognize a Tightness in their appalling behavior. At his best, Malamud is often as funny and earthy as the great Jewish humorist, Shalom Aleichem. But in his transfigured view of the world he may lie even closer to Francois Mauriac, the Catholic moralist who also holds that "the marks left by one individual upon another are eternal, and not with impunity can some other's destiny cross...
Thoughts of Monsters. "The most difficult thing of all for the moralist," observes sage Author Maurois, "is to live in accordance with his own principles." Poor Alexandre failed manfully in his efforts to do so. Urging death as the proper penalty for adulterous wives, and crying, "Only the virgin man is invincible," he fell into bed with green-eyed Princess Naryschkine, wife of a Russian nobleman. She bore him a daughter (later legitimized by her marriage to Dumas) shortly after audiences were applauding his ferocious antiseduction drama A Natural Son. Young Dumas' ferocity only caused women to swarm round...