Word: morality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This primitive moral pattern is also apparent in two other of the quasi-credible series--Jack. Armstrong and Sky King. The bad men aren't so slick and brainy as the Sword, but the two heroes are correspondingly less able than Midnight. Armstrong's prowess as a crook-catcher rests on the bale of Wheatics he consumes each morning. Sky King is the executive director of troops of eager youngsters who fly all over the hemisphere making mischief, apparently on leave of absence from high school...
Thus by last week's Election Day, when Kansans voted again on a repeal amendment, the issue had become more economic than moral. Repeal won. The amendment, banning the saloon but enabling the legislature to provide for package sale of liquor, passed by 60,000 votes. There was still a chance that the legislature would reverse this triumph in the spring. But by vote of the people, Kansas had voted wet, leaving Oklahoma and Mississippi the nation's only remaining dry states...
...Molotov last week: Tom Dewey. And what did the U.S. elections mean? Said Molotov: "A majority of the Americans rejected this program." And what of the surprisingly small number of Americans who had voted for Henry Wallace? Said Moscow: "The flower of the nation. Each ... is worth more in moral authority . . . than 100 voting robots...
Lonely Man. School was the same. Manhattan's Ethical Culture Schools tried to find a moral equivalent for religion (credo: "Deed, not Creed") and went in for the production of quiz kids. By the time he graduated, Robert could read Caesar, Virgil and Horace without a Latin dictionary, had read Plato and Homer in the Greek, composed sonnets in French, and tackled treatises on polarized light...
...convicted Nazi general really guilty? The question stirs some qualms in his idealistic prosecutor, a U.S. Army major (Ray Milland). Major Milland's search for the facts might have turned up some interesting moral issues-or at least some effective melodrama. Instead, there is only a sort of slow-motion cops & robbers chase in an uncertain direction. By the time Milland's search is patly ended, even the realistic backgrounds have begun to take on a phony look...