Word: moralized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little policies. Success is measured in the sharpening ability to counter the probing actions before they become big offensives, in the growing frustration and confusion of the enemy, in the degree of popular will-to-win at home. Ultimate policy goal: to wrap up the political, economic, military and moral meanings of the U.S. into the sort of grand plan that the cause-human freedom-deserves and the objective -an orderly, peaceful world of prospering, responsible nations-demands...
...years endows the executive branch with enough authority to pursue coherent policies. He has all but destroyed the Communist Party as an active factor in French government, has laid the groundwork for a fruitful new relationship between France and her onetime African colonies, and has immensely strengthened France's moral and psychological position in revolt-torn Algeria. Above all, he has given Frenchmen back their pride, swept away the miasma of self-contempt that has hung over France since its ignominious capitulation to Hitler...
Witches of Salem (Kingsley International) is a foredoomed but fascinating attempt to enlist the powers of darkness on the side of the angels. The film is based on The Crucible, Arthur Miller's angry drama of moral ideas and political implications, which ran for almost six months on Broadway in 1953. Unhappily, Playwright Miller tried to reason his demons out of existence with intellectual argument rather than exorcising them with literary magic and dramatic spells. As a result, a play that held an image for the ages became no more than a vigorous tract for the times...
...Defiant Ones. The chain that links two escaped convicts, a white man (Tony Curtis) and a black (Sidney Poitier), comes to signify, as Stanley Kramer's melodrama rises to its climax and its moral, the tie that binds all men to one another (TIME...
...evoke the "malicious torpor" of the bizarre Mexican scene more brilliantly than anyone since Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, which was the story of a man to whom drink was a religion. Coccioli succeeds in the more difficult story of a man intoxicated by God. His complicated moral seems to be that sanctity is inviolable, that revelation is continuous, that time present is time past, and that, whether or not Christ is also the Lord Tepozteco, it is unarguable that God is also Dios...