Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Colonial, probably the most progressive of the top five clubs (others are Cottage, Ivy, Cap and Gown, and Tiger), members decided to keep Bicker this year in a close vote. Bicker won last month, 42-36, but 13 club members resigned before the crucial ballot over a complicated "moral" issue. They would have swung...
Daley's column, according to the letter, "glosses over the moral implications of individual protest and opens the way for a romantic portrait of the Olympics as a shrine to brotherly competition and good sportsmanship...
...refuge and, worse, connect Milton by land with Dorchester. Milton residents, mainly of middle and upper incomes, fear being closely tied to poorer areas in Boston. These objections will make the fight over the marshland an emotional one. But the Governor himself has said that he has made a moral commitment to the Library. Now he has made a legislative commitment. He must carry it through...
When the major novel about the Nazi terror is written, its theme will almost certainly be not physical brutality but moral decay. Night Falls on the City merely anticipates the probability. Some of the animal savagery is there, and the death and suffering, but what is even more shameful is the almost total collapse of human decency in a highly civilized-perhaps overcivilized-society. Author Gainham knows Austria well, and the Viennese victims, fence sitters, Nazi bullyboys, happy collaborators and German overlords are all convincing enough for documentary purposes. Almost predictably, her heroine, a famous actress, has a Jewish husband...
...view at all times, or at least until the SS and finally the Russians take care of them in their own way. Of an earlier book, Appointment in Vienna, a critic wrote that "Miss Gainham knows neither when nor how to stop." True enough. But the steady march of moral disintegration under pressure in her chief characters shows that she knows where tragedy lies...