Word: moralists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early this year, the chief surgeon, a stern moralist as well as a martinet, learned that Rudloff was involved in a clandestine love affair with a female nurse on the staff. The chief surgeon told them bluntly to break off their romance or get out. Rudloff bowed to the edict, but his resentment deepened. Soon bad luck began to attend the chief surgeon's practice. Three of his patients, well on the road to recovery after their operations, suddenly took a turn for the worse and died. In each case, death was attributed to postoperative complications and the bodies...
...Moralist Overtones...
...Johnson's biographical Life of Richard Savage, a gifted but improvident London hack writer gets embroiled in bastardy, murder, poverty, affluence, licentiousness and general skulduggery, but as he squanders his talents and dies in a debtors' prison, the rigorous moralist writing his story extends his compassion and pleads for that of the reader. In Le Fanu's The Room in the Dragon Volant, a rich and credulous Englishman is tricked on a trip to France by a pretty girl and a couple of Gallic sharpsters, but emerges somewhat wiser from the coffin in which they have nailed...
People flocked to visit the author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina. They met, instead, a bearded, bearish moralist who had put all such vanities behind him. Most of the trouble in the world, pious Leo Tolstoy believed, was caused by man's passion for burying the Ten Commandments under heaps of verbiage. Educators, churchmen, politicians and pundits of every kind were all dedicated to the proposition that the simple truths of life, death and religion must be twisted into lies. The peasant blouse which Tolstoy loved to wear was not a cover for his body...
...appalled as never before by reality itself. Using the gaudiest of theater tricks-florid language, Hellzapoppin explosions, surrealist juxtapositions-he has shattered the familiar outer shell of life to reveal decadence and rottenness within. But in doing so, he has partly succumbed as a writer to what as a moralist he would expose...