Word: moralize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...harm was Rumpelstiltskin himself, who had posed the question to the queen: "If you find out my name, then you shall keep your child." Her messenger gave the queen the answer, and Rumpelstiltskin tore himself in two-everybody else lived happily ever after. There must be a moral in that somewhere...
Policy on the Move. Concern with "softness" goes deeper. Said the Rev. Homer McEwen, Negro pastor of Atlanta's First Congregational Church: "We have lost our traditional thrust toward a moral society." Watching the modern morality play unfold in Washington, a Bostonian remarked: "The awful thing about the quiz show scandals is that we're looking at ourselves." But a Los Angeles man said, "This television mess is a pimple on the body politic-what Kennedy is talking about is the real illness...
Editor of Sin is 47-year-old Msgr. Pietro Palazzini, the Vatican's secretary of the Sacred Congregation of Council and author of numerous books, including a three-volume Principles of Moral Theology. His new book consists of 37 articles on man's sinful behavior, written by 36 authors (he contributed two). Most of the sinning in the book runs the familiar gamut from adultery to zealotry, but the special sins of the modern world make earthier reading. Moviemakers, writes the Rev. Salvatore Casals, should be careful to distinguish between evil and sin, and to depict...
...added 60 stations, boosted ratings. Kintner signed up Disneyland (for $2,000,000), built a good newscasting staff, including John Daly. He also turned down a chance to sign up The $64,000 Question: "It didn't seem to make sense-not, I hasten to add, because of moral grounds...
...French seem to enjoy such youthful excesses, even though many audiences have been disturbed by the curious sense of moral vacuum in many of the pictures. Aside from a general distaste for bourgeois respectability and a slight leaning toward the left, very few of the films express any moral or spiritual convictions whatever. Nevertheless, Les Vaguistes have their principles. They hate commercialism. They prefer to make pictures on subjects of their own choice. They would rather use unknown actors. "They speak of cinema," says one critic, "as of a religion.'' So far, it seems to be a religion...