Word: moralized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every so often somebody writes a novel which is both serious enough to escape intellectual opprobrium, and direct enough to be read without a long period of spiritual preparation. "The Homecoming Game" is such a moral-intellectual rodeo...
...nominal plot is so trite as to be absurd: our hero is a professor who has flunked the football hero before the big game, and our problem is whether or not pressure will force him to recant his decision. Personal factors complicate this moral issue, however, and thus save the book from its anticipated collapse...
Although there is little hope that moral pressure will force Strijdom to abandon the forthcoming segregation of the universities of Capetown and Witwatersrand, several international student groups, among them NSA, are attempting to apply such pressure on the South African Government. A petition will circulate in Harvard this week, similar to one that will be introduced into every university in the non-Communist world, condemning the segregation. Though such action may have little effect, it will further remind Strijdom that his policies are in little accord with the Western principles he is trying to preserve in South Africa. The fact...
Insistence of the President and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles on unconditional withdrawal by Israel from the Gaza Strip and Gulf of Aqaba area has touched off a new row. Britain and France are opposed to this policy combined as it is with the threat of economic, moral or military sanctions...
Though India was still defiant over Kashmir, Jawaharlal Nehru had to pay a price in diminished moral prestige. In what is often the favorite playground of U.N. demagoguery-the touchy subject of colonialism-a unanimous General Assembly last week adopted a moderate resolution encouraging France to work out its own problems in Algeria. And in the complicated Middle East, where religious hatreds, economic rivalries and power struggles all have their angry spokesmen in the U.N., there was a general willingness (to which even Russia had to pay lip service) to try the way of mediation...