Word: moralized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...express to Mr. & Mrs. Edmund de Caussin Jr. our sympathy in their tragic experience. Each time we read of the abduction and death of a child under similar circumstances, it seems that the moral flow of our present age cancels out the good that has been produced by our society. Mr. de Caussin places the blame correctly on the emphasis on sex with which we nurture our people...
Noting the problems of increased leisure time, Hunt called on education to "promote world understanding, national unity, and the strengthening of moral and spiritual values...
Lady Chatterley's Lover. Traveling a middle road was Justice John Marshall Harlan. On the ground that the states "bear direct responsibility for the protection of the local moral fabric" but the U.S. Congress "has no substantive power over sexual morality," he concurred in rejecting Alberts' 14th Amendment plea, but dissented in the First Amendment Roth case. Wrote Harlan: "The danger is perhaps not great if the people of one state, through their legislature, decide that Lady Chatterley's Lover goes so far beyond the acceptable standards of candor that it will be deemed offensive...
...helpers. One was a socially topflight admirer, dashing Civil War Major General E. Burd Grubb, a West Pointer with an inherited business. He sent her violets daily from his hothouses but never (he had a strict moral code) asked her aboard his transatlantic yacht. The second was a smooth operator known as "P'ison Jim" Seymour. His diabolical advice to Harriet: "Let the men fool around with mines and railroads. See what you can take out of their wives...
...Earle Hyman, whom local playgoers will recall for his excellent work during the past year in Saint Joan and Waiting for Godot. He is ideal for the role, if perhaps still a bit young. Handsome and six-feet-three, he properly cuts a figure of great physical and moral stature. A rich, sonorous voice is complemented by an extraordinarily expressive face as, going from calm imperiousness through tormenting doubts and jealousy to become a tragically pitiful uxoricide, the Devil's agent Iago gradually wreaks the havoc of his human lord and the heavenly Desdemona (see cuts on page...