Word: moralized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What they sought was liberty under law, no less and no more than justice in a moral universe. It is self-evident, wrote Deist Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, that all men "are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights," that "among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." and that "to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among...
Says Mr. Justice Douglas: "In our scheme of things the rights of man are unalienable. They come from the Creator, not from a President, a legislature or a court." And the U.S. Supreme Court recently affirmed the little-noticed but profoundly meaningful decision of a Pennsylvania court in a morals case, which said: "Our federal and state constitutions assume that the moral code which is part of God's order in this world exists as the substance of society...
Whether or not Schnitzler had in mind any moral statement about the futility of finding enduring values in sex alone is a question of little concern to director John Heffernan. The senior member of the company at twenty-five, Mr. Heffernan puts an appropriately youthful zest into the whole production. He finds little irony in the lines and focuses the humor on desire, social inhibitions, frustration, and zany hypocrisy. A sociology of sex emerges which stresses the primacy of simple desire over attempts to cloak it in social idealization. For any who don't already know the plot, girl meets...
...allowed proposals for student productions to come from student groups. No production originated by students has been set aside for the pet project of a faculty member. Equally important, no case has recently come to light of a refusal to give theater space to a play on aesthetic or "moral" grounds...
...also repeats, in milder form, Nietzsche's moral and psychological critique and traces as deftly as the vehement Antichrist himself the subtle ways in which humility and self-effacement can be poisoned with unconscious resentment and servility, pious altruism functioning as the cloak for ferocious resentment and hate. (Members of the Harvard religious community who think that this element has altogether vanished from sophisticated contemporary Christianity were obviously not listening to the responsive reading they recited during a recent service in Memorial Church: "...Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed...