Word: moralization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...success will not be a majority for out (which is already conceded), but the size of the vote. Heavy participation could be taken as a vote of confidence in De Gaulle's abilities to solve the Algerian dilemma. "The majority in Algeria will give De Gaulle the moral position before the world to continue the war. We must answer-militarily, politically, and diplomatically," explained an F.L.N. member...
...spiritual side of driving a car came in for intensive study in Seattle last week at the first of what the National Safety Council hopes will be a nationwide series of "moral-emphasis safety workshops." Some 250 laymen and clergymen from the Puget Sound area-including Protestants, Roman Catholics, Greek Orthodox, Jews and Buddhists-met to discuss ways and means of awakening the conscience of the man behind the wheel...
...obscure the view through our windshields with suspended St. Christopher replicas to win the protection of a patron saint," said the Rev. Martin L. Goslin of Seattle's Plymouth Congregational Church, "but how much do we do for a moral frame of mind? Assuredly we are called upon . . . not necessarily to enjoin people to turn the other cheek, but more appropriately to turn the other fender...
...There could be a slightly Gilbert and Sullivanish flavor to the whole affair-royal background, star-crossed lovers, Episcopal blunderbuss, aging clerical sap, now for the mustard and cress-if it weren't all so desperately troubling . . . The lives of two people . . . her duty and his ... a chaotic moral theology . . . Romantic individualism was masquerading as the Gospel-is there anyone not moved to the, deepest and most penitent intercession for all concerned...
...total loss, and even later on there are messy soft spots in between the bursts of hilarity. They would do well to excise entirely the pretty, insipid secretary who, it turns out at the end, is going to marry the hero after all. And they ought to write the moral issue out of the plot, because they handle it very clumsily, and because it does not belong in their play anyway. (A very wise old critic has remarked that sleazy sentimentality and pseudo-morality are the two worst vices of the commercial theater...