Word: moralists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...first essay in this volume is on Locke, "the father of modern psychology," whom Mr. Santayana puts in his place in the history of thought. The second essay is on F. H. Bradley, the sturdy but mistaken moralist, for whom Mr. Santayana, unlike Mr. T. S. Eliot, does not cherish an excessively warm regard. There is, as the third essay, a highly suggestive consideration of the theory of relativity and the new physics. The suspicion is advanced that "even Einstein is an imperfect relativist, and retains Euclidean space and absolute time at the bottom of his calculation, and recovers them...
...Clarence True Wilson, Methodist moralist, and in less generous vein Dr. Francis Scott McBride for the Anti-Saloon League, promised to cooperate. Not so Mrs. Ella Alexander Boole, the bustling matriarch of the W. C. T. U., whose plan is to find horrid examples of what 3.2% beer can do and use them to club down Repeal in perhaps 16 states, three more than enough to kill it.* She replied to Crusader Clark: "I assume you wired me for publicity purposes...