Word: moralized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...circumstances fight for its King and Country." As for the suggestion that Britain should unilaterally forswear atomic weapons, he pointed out that only the U.S. and Russia are major atomic powers. "When you are running third in a race, you cannot, by giving up, give what is called a moral lead...
...course, the hero's recession proves to be nothing worse than a readjustment; nevertheless, in its hilarious conclusion, the picture does not fail to point a serious moral: uneasy lies the neck that wears a white collar...
...through one of Saud's fathers-in-law, Syrian-born Assad Ibrahim. According to Ibrahim, said Serraj, Saud considered Nasser's union "Egyptian imperialism," and had sworn "by his father's soul that this union shall not take place." Ibrahim forthwith offered Serraj financial and moral support for the Syrian presidency if Serraj would lead a coup...
...Fall-is oddly anticlimactic. The trouble seems to lie in the triumph of symbol over substance. He offers a series of intellectual puzzlers in which the clues are elusive, though the humanistic passion that runs through them is strong and clear, reflecting Camus' vision of art as a moral inquiry into man's fate...
...illusion of creativity, and girls with the illusion of vitality. After that, Jonas' decline is swift, sure and touching. Dying, he scribbles one word on a blank canvas, but no one can be sure "whether it should be read solitary or solidary" (i.e., at one with society). Moral: wooing the Muse is not half so important, or difficult, as staying married...