Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Seldom has the general tendency of mankind to view with alarm been so vividly pointed out. One feels less, doubtful concerning national standards of 1926 when one knows that in 1827 people were writing such things us-- "a glance at our country and its present moral condition fills the mind with alarming apprehension." The jazz age has nothing on the age of crinolines and Jenny Lind. It will cheer the public to be apprised of its ancestors' wickedness, for the immobile faces in the family album become more human when their foibles are proclaimed...
...Shortly after the armistice, students from ten different countries met at Strassbourg to found the International Confederation of Students. The aim of the newly created organization was to bring together the students of all countries into a cooperative movement in order to meet the material and moral needs of modern student life. At the time of the foundation of the C. I. E. the European student was faced with two vital problems: one, that of procuring his daily sustenance, the other, that of emerging from a four year's atmosphere of nationalistic orgies and distrust of other countries. The students...
...Jernegan of Chicago University, is sending questionnaires to doctors of philosophy throughout the country requesting a "frank and full opinion" as to the reason for the failure of higher degree holders to become scholars. The ten queries contained in the questionnaire cover the chief factors, economic, scholastic, and moral, which may be contributory to a situation of keen concern to leaders in historical research. The results of this inquisitory campaign will be contained in a report submitted to the Historical Association about December...
...straight "girl show," catering to the follies and foibles of tired business men, The Pearl Of Great Price might have come up to the best Shubert tradition. As a morality play, its sly emphasis upon the fleshly temptations, its substitution of "Mammy" sentimentality for virtue, its salacious exaltation of a physical technicality to the plane of spiritual value damn it. It is simply a huge hypocrisy parading under a thin veil of moral pretense...
...Loser. His lifelong application to biologic detail cost Darwin dear (suggests Author Bradford) in other fields of interest: in literature, history, politics; in esthetic enjoyment of nature; in religion. Some Catholics asked him what he was. "A sort of a Christian," he said. Habitually moral, gentle, tolerant, noble-minded, this was the truest answer, yet he regarded himself quite simply and scientifically as "differing" from faithful folk who "make themselves quite easy by intuition." He avoided cosmic thoughts, kept his writing purposely free from Pantheism, stuck to his species and specimens and "let God go" as imponderable. The Lover...