Word: moralized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elegance casts a spell. Let me do some thinking in the direction of impeccable, symmechromatic, thunder-blender . . . (The exotics, if I can shape them a little.) Dearborn might come into one ... I thank you for realizing that under contract esprit could not flower. You owe me nothing, specific or moral...
Further compounding the confusion, high-spending consumers still hold a traditional moral attitude toward saving as a virtue and borrowing as an evil. That attitude, they think, is exactly the one held by bankers. Since people feel guilty about personal borrowing, they believe that the "typical" moralistic banker is likely to turn them down. Thus, they often turn to finance companies for "unworthy" borrowing, such as auto loans, instead of to banks...
...Diarmuid Devine, B.A., English master at Saint Michan's and Cuff (socalled for his swift classroom rabbit punch) is his seedy senior colleague, Timothy Stanislaus Heron, M.A., whose raveled gown flaps behind him "like broken black wings." According to Novelist Brian Moore, many moral Waterloos are lost on the playing fields of Saint Michan's. It is not a progressive school; in fact it is the most distressful college that has been seen since Dotheboys Hall. By confession and the cane, the clerical masters rule a cowed proletariat of boys and a middle class of lay masters...
...Europe Co-operative," a similar student group, chartered a plane for 68 members last year. The co-operative was organized after several student groups had failed to stimulate interest in a European flight, and secured Dean Watson's "moral approval" on the condition that it claim no official University backing...
...film contains pathos, but not tragedy. The victims are squeezed in a vice of propriety and necessity for love, in a situation where propriety must control them. Colette unfortunately omitted any see-what-to-expect-of-secluded-girls'-schools moral, leaving just a story. While the characters are interesting only as general types in a unique plot Olivia'a story seems very real to one who has not first-hand experience...