Word: moralistes
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...brought up to believe that sexual finesse is almost as important a social grace as, say, good table manners, it sometimes comes as a shock to be reminded that lust is one of the seven deadly sins. Moralists who insist on this fact are likely to be regarded as bores, or boors, or both. One moralist, however, who runs no such risk is a cheerful, youthful novelist named Robert Gover...
...telescopic lenses that drill deep into a scene, suck up all the action in sight and then spew it violently into the viewer's face. But Kurosawa is far more than a master of movement. He is an ironist who knows how to pity. He is a moralist with a sense of humor. He is a realist who curses the darkness-and then lights a blowtorch...
...avarice, with curtsying dances and puckish pratfalls, Halloween masks and wopsical hats. It is more a costume ball than a play, and it stresses what is sheen-deep in Molière's wit rather than what is skinflinty. Still, in a glancing way, the master French comic moralist's point does get made-that a sin is called deadly because it deadens. Mock-Hero Harpagon (Hume Cronyn) is dead to his children's hope of love, dead to his servants' grievances, dead to any generous stirrings of heart or mind. He counts the world well...
...first-hand, vital, and the remedy for otherwise incurable maladies of the soul. "At bottom the whole concern of both morality and religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe. Do we accept it only in part and grudgingly, or heartily and altogether?" Assuredly the moralist assents to the reigning order, but he may endure it with "the heaviest and coldest heart, and never cease to feel it as a yoke." The religious man, on the other hand, in his strongest and most fully developed form, never feels the demands of life as an odious burden. "Dull...
...school's first director, Talcott Williams, son of a Congregationalist missionary, was a stern taskmaster and a finger-wagging moralist who admonished his girl students not to go around arousing the boys. Williams so burdened his class with assignments that two of its members-Morrie Ryskind, whose lyrics for 1932's Of Thee I Sing won him a Pulitzer Prize, and the late Hearst Columnist George Sokolsky-went on a brief strike...