Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...success of long-term loans at low rates in use today indicates that such a plan would work, asserted Harris. "M.I.T. has a terrific loan plan, with only one per cent default in 25 years," he pointed out. The Business School's program, which depends "on moral obligation," is another instance of such a plan's effectiveness, Harris said. The system, he maintained, should prove to be "the most effective way of getting tuition...
...addition to taking this moral stand, the Council appointed a committee of three to investigate the legal questions raised by the "coup...
...marshal. Something in the air fed intransigence; fire-breathing Feminist Lucy Stone was a graduate (1847), and later Oberlin's rich soil of righteousness produced the Anti-Saloon League. Present-day manifestations are less obvious: a bluntly worded faculty defense of academic freedom, a tone of ineffable moral superiority in the student newspaper's lectures to the college administration...
...only thing a Graham Greene hero can be sure of is that, morally speaking, he will not get something for nothing. In such superb serious novels as The Power and the Glory and The Heart of the Matter, sin leads the man up to the brink of damnation, but there the moral bargain is struck, and in exchange for inner pain and penance he gets at least a peek at the way to salvation. Greene likes to separate these serious novels from the lighter ones, which he calls "entertainments." In these (This Gun for Hire, The Ministry of Fear...
...practitioners of Group 2. Shute's surefire system is to take some typical or moving theme -nuclear fallout in On the Beach, race prejudice in The Chequer Board, homeless children in Pied Piper. He weaves in plenty of stirring incidents and peoples his pages with strongly sympathetic, highly moral characters who land deep in a pit of trouble in the first chapter, are often still there by the last...