Word: moralized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President is willing to let the dilatory 85th Congress move on civil rights before he makes an all-out fight for the Hungarians. But he feels that the U.S. has made a high moral commitment. And beyond that, he wonders how, if Congress is not even willing to grant help to the Hungarian refugees, the U.S. could possibly offer any sort of hope to Freedom Fighters if revolt were to break out in another Soviet satellite...
...lower stiff penalties against offending magazines so that it will be easier to get convictions. In Pittsburgh, after a six-day investigation, a grand jury warned: "Immediate action must be taken to save our young people from being corrupted by lewd literature. Printed filth is seriously threatening our moral, social and community life...
...into the state." but were anable to agree on any fair or workable censorship formula. Even churchmen do not agree that the stag magazines drive children to delinquency. The Rev. Owen McKinley Walton, executive director of Pittsburgh's Council of Churches, denounced them as "literary chloroform, deadening the moral and spiritual strength of our youth.'' But Unitarian Minister Irving R. Murray, chairman of the Pittsburgh chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, who "deplores dirty magazines properly defined.'' quoted extensive psychological studies showing that "literature, decent or indecent, is without effect on juvenile delinquents, practically...
...part in the current religious revival at Harvard by undertaking a program aimed at the restoration of paganism. After staging an Americanized version of the Trojan War last year, the Society has now turned to Jacques Offenbach's irreverent 19th century reworking of the Orpheus myth. While the moral effect of such an undertaking might be questionable, its entertainment value in the current installment is fairly high. Orpheus in Hades is very nearly an excellent show...
...historical tales, one is concerned with the Civil War, the other with the American Revolution; one is factual, the other imagined; one deals with physical and the other with moral courage. Both are agreeable examples of the Historical Footnote school of writing...