Word: moralized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past thirty years has come from the South: Wolfe, Faulkner, Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and John Crowe Ransom. The South has its own colorful history, way of life and values, all of which came into conflict with the North, a region claiming moral superiority and possessing physical superiority. Southern writers became increasingly aware of the value of regionalism and fought the omnivorousness of Megapolis the exclusive formation of literary taste by New York. This moment reached its peak with the Southern Agarian movement led by Robert Penn Warren...
...said he will leave the chaplain at Princeton "for the present," declared that the key issue in the dispute is "the right of a priest charged with the spiritual care of Catholic students in a secular university to speak out in defense of the faith and morals of those committed to his care." Added Halton: "The teaching of some Princeton professors has done and is doing graver disservice to the religious and moral traditions of American democracy than all the writings of Karl Marx taken together...
...archbishop seemed to separate man-made law from moral or natural law in a way that some theologians would disagree with. Wrote Fisher: "Why is there a realm 'which is not the law's business?' Just because man's ultimate responsibility is to God alone, and in that responsibility no man can deliver his own brother, there is a sacred realm of privacy ... a realm of his own essential rights and liberties (including, in the Providence of God, liberty 'to go to the devil')." Into this liberty, wrote Dr. Fisher, the law must...
Agreeing, in principle, with the Wolfenden Report's strictly limited premise that the law must confine itself to preserving public order and decency, Fisher nevertheless cautiously conceded that if "without undue interference" the law can do anything "to strengthen the moral stamina of the people, it ought to do it ... It is not easy to say whether the community as a whole does not need protection from the private immoralities, whether of homosexuals or of heterosexuals." But, in sum, he doubted that a clear way could be found "by which, without fatal damage to the general principle...
...hymns (two of the best-known: Jesus, Lover of my soul, Hark ! the herald angels sing), to take part in a memorial service. The sermon bore the same title (''One Needful Thing") as Charles Wesley's, and its substance was the stern kind of moralizing that the 18th century preacher would have approved. Methodist Bishop John Wesley Lord cited the Little Rock crisis (''The moral sense of the nation has been outraged''), continued: "We must seek and find the courage to do the true thing. Today God is troubling the waters...