Word: moralization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...system had removed many of the common ties, the founders of Signet were condemning not the idea of clubs, but rather the effects of club life on a young man. Their philosophy was that academic learning, if it is to be beneficial and not injurious, must be accompanied by moral education, and that this cannot come from the faculty, but must come from one's fellow students. They thought that the "promiscuity" of the clubs would seriously impair the value of this aspect of a Harvard education, and one of the earliest organic rules stated that "acts of conviviality" would...
...course difficult to have a Platonic dialogue at lunch, but the general flow of conversation tends to center about daily affairs, topical anecdotes, and private and public gossip. There are virtually no more meetings to read papers or hold serious discussions. The concern for academic discipline, and especially for moral education, has almost disappeared. The assumption that a group of interesting people will spontaneously produce brilliant conversation when brought together does not often hold true after a morning of classes when most members prefer to relax rather than to emanate or to absorb culture. Signet is used more...
...Muggles'? Had anyone thought of attaching a four-leaf clover to the missile somewhere? The fact that a symbol or a word is associated with traditional Christianity does not prevent its being used in the most blatantly superstitious manner possible. The fact that there are religious and moral ideals in our Western heritage does not prevent these symbols from being caricatured, so that not only is the symbol itself made ridiculous but the faith behind it is turned into children's triviality...
...minority. His village stage is a stony place called Duncrana, and the leading man on that stage is both a teetotaler and an informer-terrible things to be. Unlike O'Flaherty's "Gypo," who betrays out of weakness, Roth's O'Neill acts from moral strength and does it on a tide of tea. (In fact, as Roth tells it, all Ireland is washed by a Gulf Stream of tannin. Births, deaths, love, wakes and warfare swim in the element...
Dermot's moral dilemma is sharpened by the fact that his commandant has ordered an attack on a police station which may well kill innocents. The writing is no great shakes, but there is nothing slipshod about the moral crux onto which Novelist Roth has carpentered his O'Neill. A Terrible Beauty is a plain tale, honest as a pair of well-cobbled brogans. Unhappily, every now and then Roth remembers that writing about Ireland is supposed to be a bit on the poetic side, and sets up a keen about the scenery or the weather. The only...