Word: moralized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...methodical Germans gave Laika a properly Wagnerian title-die Himmels-hündin, the She-Hound of Heaven-and drew a moral from her flight. "For a few days, the world is again united," intoned the Stuttgarter Zeitung. "For a few days, black and white, democrats and communists, republicans and royalists in all countries, islands and continents have one feeling, one language, one direction . . . our feeling of compassion for this little living being twirling helplessly over our heads." The Stuttgarter Zeitung had apparently overlooked some dissonant voices, such as that of the Vietnamese farmer who complained...
...regard to your editorial (or whatever) The Moral Issue in today's copy of the CRIMSON, I would like to inquire of your young reporter if he is aware that there is a moral issue in the attitude of the Anti-Vivisection Society, which he lampoons. Does he know of the reflections on this subject by Albert Schweitzer in Reverence for Life or by Carl von Weizsacker (who gave a course on Scientific Method at Harvard in Summer, 1952), in The World View of Physics or by Martin Buber in I and Thou? Is he prepared to reject all philosophical...
...answer to The Moral Issue would be a suggestion that the Soviet Government raise a monument to Laika, where the school children can come with flowers and tears for the death of a friend, and joy, admiration and gratitude for the heroism of the first space traveller. Such emotions would contribute much more to the bettering of international relations than the panic of hysterical fear and hostility now evident...
...advertisement, the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy" outlined the "deep uneasiness" existing inside Americans. Blaming this uneasiness on "living half a life," the 48 signers called for Americans to "rediscover our moral strength...
Then he was suddenly quite serious. "The clever fellows may argue eternally about the utility or inutility, the reliability or unreliability of vivisection. The real issue is the moral issue. It is a godless action, to cut apart these pathetic animals who cannot speak to save themselves. It is a godless action, and it bespeaks a godless people...