Word: moralists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Decent conduct" cried the Red Moralist, "has nothing to do with Hell or Heaven! Instead of enforcing decent con-duct by threats of a non-existent Hell or by promises of a non-existent Heaven we must bring up our new generations to con-duct themselves decently because a comrade's own usefulness and the well-being of the nation require...
What is the significance of such a state of affairs? The over-zealous moralist will imply with gusto that the public has a genuine esteem for the perpetration of evil, and that the country is at last on its way to perdition. Such a conclusion must be rejected; the prominence given to the fabulous annals of crime admits of a more significant explanation...
...book (214 small pages) but contains 18 biographies in parvo. They are like unusually well-written, extremely urbane short stories. Some of their subjects: Elizabethan Sir John Harington, who, "suddenly inspired," invented the water-closet. Jacobean Dr. North, Master of Trinity College (Cambridge), whom illness transmogrified from a scrupulous moralist into a ribald debauchee. The Président de Brosses, the man who got the better of Voltaire over a bill for firewood. Mary Berry, last survivor of the 18th Century, who "could even make Frenchmen hold their tongues; she could even make Englishmen talk." Strachey pays his unrespectful...
...vellum to carry to the White House and present personally to his subject. The President will find in it not only a record of his own career but also many views, comments and digressions by the author, also photographs of the author holding his country's flag. A moralist, Biographer Marsh is no less interested in Prohibition, Public Schools and the art of growing rich than he is in Herbert Hoover...
...earth. No trained artist, he has been stirred, by Radio Corp.'s development from a communications business into an amusement business, to ponder the potentialities of radio as the basis of a new national art form, especially for a new generation unhampered by old art forms. Never a moralist, he has said: "In no other profession [besides Business], not excepting the ministry and the law, is the need for wide information, broad sympathies and directed imagination so great." Always that kind of a business man, he has foreseen the necessity of national communications monopoly, wires and wireless, government-controlled...