Word: moralist
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...blood-chilling scream as she was pushed to her death in an icy black lake. Yet as the heroine of Dmitri Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mzensk (pronounced Muhzjensk), the woman responsible for these three atrocious murders was really a gentle soul whom only the sternest moralist would blame for her crimes...
...York's Bishop William Thomas Manning is an austere sermonizer, not inclined to denounce the frivolities of Manhattan socialites who give money to his Cathedral of St. John the Divine. More of a pulpit moralist is the Bishop's right-hand man, the Very Rev. Milo Hudson Gates. Last week the chubby-cheeked Dean beheld a newspaper photograph of eight Manhattan girls practicing shaking cocktails for a benefit. Last Sunday at a special Cathedral service for the Colonial Dames of America, Dean Gates told of these "quite charming debutantes, with a background of gin and whiskey bottles...
...DeCasseres has a perfectly good reason to object to Herr Hanfstaengl, but he conceals it under an absurd cover. We suggest that he re-read his Spinoza (which, we note, is one of his interests). That classic moralist would have frankly stated his real objection. SCIO
...mirthless desert waste inhabited by a few sincere fanatics and a horde of unexampled experts in bootlick, blackmail and blatherskite." As victims of this Inquisition he cites the late Sergei Yessenin and Vladimir Maiakovsky (both suicides) ; the conversion of "the mirthful satirist, Valentine Kataev . . . into a faithful Sunday School moralist of the five-year plan"; the groveling recantation of Panteleimon Romanov; the humiliation of Boris Pilnyak, president of the Russian Authors' League, who was forced to save his skin by rewriting a "harmful" book into a "harmless" one; the refusal of Isaac Babyel to publish anything at all under...
...rigid moralist, Japan's current policy is frightfully reprehensible and productive of grief. Recently, she has once again shyly intimated her utterly disinterested desire to establish a Monroe Doctrine for the continent of Asia, a policy which violates not only the Nine-Power Treaty of 1921, but other treaty obligations as well. Diplomatists are expressing shocked surprise at this, a state of affairs which is either a tribute to their innocent incompetence, or to their mendacious abilities. To the historian, this desire has been common knowledge for at least a decade, but, of course, diplomatists are unsophisticated folk...