Word: moralized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the learned faculty succeeds in so disorienting young Catholic minds as to turn them against their priest, it can be truly said that Princeton is a center of ''moral and political subversion...
...population (53 million), looms as the economic wonder of the democratic West. The Germans' own astonishing energy and some $5 billion in timely U.S. aid have wrought their great part in what is universally hailed as "the German miracle." Chancellor Konrad Adenauer has created the indispensable moral atmosphere of democratic order and political responsibility. But the philosopher and engineer of the miracle is a pink-jowled, roly-poly professor, Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard...
...retreated to the religion of art, embracing the Nietzschean view that "we have art in order not to die of the truth." At a fellow-traveling distance, Jean-Paul Sartre consoles himself with the shifting certitudes of Communism. Albert Camus has too lucid a mind and too scrupulous a moral conscience to opt for such relatively easy solutions. With each successive book, he seems to be sweeping closer to a Niagara of faith, albeit he paddles strenuously upstream towards his professed atheism. Witty, skeptical, man-intoxicated, Camus may never take the final leap of religious faith, but he is already...
Thus a feeling of isolated, individual dignity has been superimposed upon Conway's highly developed intellect. Many of the students who have come in contact with him comment upon his "genuine concern and wonderful humanity." Master Finley commends him for having achieved "a wonderful balance between the moral and intellectual aspects of University life." He has also balanced his acceptance of Francois Mauriac's skepticism with his own devout Catholicism...
Some retentionists claim that the death penalty builds up some sort of "moral abhorrence" in the community for the crime of homicide, the supreme punishment stigmatizing it as the greatest offense. But execution is hardly a moral argument; ethical standards are the products of education and environment, not force...