Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...serious matter of beauty contests. Acting in his capacity as Minister of the Interior (one of his 8-out-of-13 Cabinet positions) he notified all prefects of Italian provinces that "beauty contests, with their consequent naming of 'queens' and 'princesses,' lower the moral standard of communities, and tend to dangerous exaltation of feminine vanity as well as constituting a parody on very serious matters." Therefore, let there be no more beauty contests. The "parody on serious matters" phrase was merely fresh evidence of how jealously Fascist Italy guards the dignity of State pomps and ceremonies...
...description of a possible film, gives the story an effect less real than it would have on the screen. Paul's dream of ultramodern warfare on land, sea and air, with poison gas, liquid fire, mob massacre, would make Hollywood producers tremble not only at the moral shock this might cause on the box-office front, but in itself would necessitate the hire of air fleets and duels, a Cathedral and High Mass, hordes of soldiers, five tanks "bigger and uglier than any contemporary tanks," a battleship which explodes - and, on top of all this, New York...
...Moral encouragement if not tangible aid to the plight of 35,000 unemployed U. S. orchestra musicians (TIME, May 20), was contained in a remark made publicly last week in Paris by Director Serge Koussevitzky of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Said he: "A phenomenal musical renaissance is in progress in the U. S. Americans have the active temperament which, instead of retarding their artistic perceptions, has been the salvation of America's artistic development. They have stimulated orchestral advancement, just as they have created immense business enterprises. The American people have an inordinate genius for growth...
...place-Pauline Christianity which Mr. Lewisohn identifies with the divorce laws of New York and therefore with the root of his troubles. "My country and its Christian laws have no regard for love or virtue or the creative mind but give their support to legalized malignity and moral foulness if only these mouth the moral saws of the market-place...
Says Lippmann: "What most distinguishes the generation who have approached maturity since the debacle of idealism at the end of the War is not their rebellion against the religion and moral code of their parents, but their disillusionment with their own rebellion. It is common for young men and women to rebel, but that they should rebel sadly and with out faith in their own rebellion, that they should distrust the new freedom no less than the old certainties-that is something of a novelty...