Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak. The eternal validity of the moral struggle affirmed by a man who is living...
...that, with doctrinally objectionable passages annotated, this essentially Christian book might do some good." The annotations appear in the form of footnotes. Thus Hugo, in chapter four, describes the bishop's doctrine: "Err, yield to temptation, sin, but be just!" Says a footnote: "A very easy and peaceable moral thesis which had nothing in common with Catholic doctrine." And in chapter seven, when the bishop debates whether to return stolen goods or hand them to the poor, a footnote warns that "the slogan 'the end justifies the means' is not admissible in a bishop or anyone else...
This book implies a moral stated by Santayana: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat...
...simple poems which for some reason don't quite come off; one which vaguely tries to describe the creative process, somewhat like MacLeish's Ars Poetica, and is similarly feeble, and another which uses love and the sand and the sea to point out a slightly commonplace bitter-sweet moral...
...textual piracies pave the way for his ideological sneakiness. Terrified to read our articles closely enough to see what they say and how they say it, Mr. A. is a moral as well as an aesthetic coward. Dogmatically he extracts a sentence from an article--rather than troubling to restate the argument of the article in his own terms. Then he sneers. A few steps in the critical process seem to have been left out or aped...