Word: moralized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vital campus relation, to Wriston, is that in which the scholar tries to stimulate students to "the cultivation of a mind that seeks to express itself in its own way at its own best "evel." This is part of "the democratic process," which "has a strength, a stability, a moral force that no other system can match," and the U.S. should take pride...
...Betti's lifelong career as a magistrate: it tells of the final human hunger to make sense of things--political catastrophies, the death of those we love--by restoring the concepts of guilt and innocence, punishment and choice, in all their dreadful nobility. Only by forcing the wedge of moral responsibility into our lives and consenting to suffer its risks and pains, can the world be dislodged at all from its absolute "absurdity"; only by acknowledging the gap thereby created between what is and what ought to be, can man still find hope and purpose, be saved from the epidemic...
...wonder exactly what Mr. Billy Graham meant by the "high standard of Russian morality" [June 29]. Can the constant watch of Big Brother induce genuine virtue? If Russian people are intrinsically on a higher moral level than the British people, how is it to be explained that Russian troops cruelly misused women in the countries they fought and occupied? Did they leave their "moral purity" at home...
Castro ignored him. That night on TV, his favorite medium for lecturing the country, Castro said in a four-hour harangue that he had differences with Urrutia that were both "moral and civic." For a starter, Urrutia was drawing "exactly the same salary as Batista" ($10,000 a month), while all the Cabinet members had voluntarily taken a cut to $700. Urrutia was buying a $40,000 house, while "I have no house; I have bought no house."† Waving and tapping a yellow pencil, Castro stepped up the pace of the attack until his voice grew shrill and sweat...
...Ralph Bunche, Negro, Nobel Peace Prizewinner and United Nations Under Secretary, it was a peaceful moral victory. Only a week had passed since Bunche disclosed that his 15-year-old son had been barred from membership in New York City's fashionable West Side Tennis Club (in Forest Hills, Queens) because of his race (TIME, July 20). Club President Wilfred Burglund, the Manhattan public relations man who had told Bunche that the club excludes Negroes and Jews, resigned last week amidst public clamor for his singed scalp. Then the club's governors were moved to announce...