Word: moralized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's Archbishop of Canterbury was for well-modulated tones: too much political moralizing by the churches can lead to moral indignation in the countries concerned, and moral indignation "is a dangerous dynamite that has to be controlled." Thorniest case in point: a 900-word report from the Commission of the Churches on International Affairs urged Christians in countries that planned tests of nuclear weapons to take a calculated "risk for peace" by urging their governments to stop all such tests for a trial period-even without prior international control agreements-"in the hope that others will...
There the youthful-appearing (45) new president of the A.B.A., Charles S. Rhynne of Washington D.C., added his piece to that of his seniors: "What do we mean by freedom under law? We mean acknowledgment of the fact that there are moral limitations on civil power. We mean that human beings have rights, as human beings, which are superior to what may be thought to be the rights of the state or of society. It is the truth exemplified in the Magna Carta and in the American Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights...
...from abroad did not surprise Philadelphians, it was because the story carried the byline: "Richardson Dilworth, Mayor of Philadelphia." On a month's vacation in Europe that ended last week, Democrat Dilworth wrote a series of mayor's-eye-view stories for the Inquirer that found a moral for the home folks almost every place he visited. Describing the rebuilt sections of West Berlin, for example, Yaleman Dilworth said they offer "conclusive proof of how essential it is to the health and well-being of a large city to have ample, well-planned open space." In Norway...
...pointed like cannon on their carriages"; "petrified bushes . . . scattered in grimacing zigzags." But no matter how exorbitant their "world," Verne's characters remain strictly human, sternly Victorian. When Verne died, it was not science that did him homage. It was Pope Leo XIII who applauded the purity and moral and spiritual value of the old S.F. master's 80-odd volumes...
...buddy who feeds him with dried human flesh, he has committed another act that revolts him and leads directly to madness. By this time he is sure that God has spoken to him, but he has long since lacked the strength of mind to solve either the spiritual or moral problems that assail his failing brain...