Word: morality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most moral or circumspect area of the world: the divorce rate was still staggeringly high, marijuana-smoking was enjoying a minor and furtive popularity, and shiny new automobiles crashed at high speeds with noisy regularity. But nobody seized upon this as evidence that man was finding new freedoms. The trend in manners & morals was in the other direction. The U.S. people seemed to be looking for values they had dropped in their long and precipitous scramble toward larger horizons...
...terror and engender the strength and courage which could prevent war. To build that strength and courage, Europe does need time. The Kremlin, by launching a sudden attack, has the power to refuse Europe the time it needs, and to cut short this period of Europe's moral regeneration. That is the risk. But it is a risk which more & more Western Europeans are willing to take...
...late 19th-Century period piece, My Romance tells of the great love between a young Manhattan clergyman and a not very moral Italian diva, and of how, putting love before sex, she nobly renounces him. As enacted by two gauche vocalists, this desire of the cloth for the flame seems about as erotic as compiling an index...
...business as educators to . . . provide a moral synthesis which can guide our students wisely through a mass of contradictory [views] . . . It can be provided only though freedom of inquiry and discussion, and by . . . the personal idealism of [teachers] aware of the moral and spiritual implications of knowledge . . . Graduate schools and colleges which glorify research and publication at the expense of the art of teaching are guilty of a grave and perhaps irreparable sin against civilization. Communities which spend millions for alcohol, cosmetics and amusements, and what is left over for schools, are committing spiritual suicide. [We are] letting our world...
...only in the very broadest sense--a sense in which few, if any, would take the slogan--that "birth control" is not against God's law. Restriction of births by the natural means of continence is entirely moral...