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Word: moralists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many guideposts. It has not been his fault if critics have been unable to trace the stages of his development. At the age of 41 he has produced some 24 books, including novels, plays, poems, anthologies, travel books, essays, charting his progression from an accomplished satirist to a troubled moralist, from a contented mocker at contemporary society to an earnest preacher to it. Tall (over 6 ft.), extremely thin, bookish, Aldous Huxley gave up his plan to be a doctor at 17, when he nearly went blind. At 20 he published his first book, The Burning Wheel, a volume...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mill Slaves | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

...duty that it demands, grows more austere and reserved, plays football, gets a broken leg making a touchdown for Williams in a victory over Harvard. His father's suicide puts him in touch with a cousin, Mario Van de Weyer, who represents still another problem for the young moralist to solve. Educated in Europe, Mario is sophisticated, reckless, experienced in love, enjoys flattery, presents, bright clothing, admires Oliver's integrity without wishing to imitate him. When Mario leaves Harvard hastily, after an actress is discovered in his roo'm, Oliver befriends him, straightens out his finances, feels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Philosophic Footballer | 2/3/1936 | See Source »

...honor of being singled out for special condemnation the next year by that ferocious moralist Jeremy Collier, in his attack on the "immorality and profaneness of the English stage," and in reply Vanbrugh calmly enunciated his theory of comedy -- "to show people what they should do, by representing them on the stage doing what they should...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Virtue in Danger' Leverett House Annual Play, Exposes Society of William and Mary's England | 3/15/1935 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Murders of Mzensk | 2/11/1935 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Dean on Shakers | 1/21/1935 | See Source »

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