Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Americans must point to a new alliance with liberal elements; they must act on moral bases--out of compassion--because the alternative is fatal, Myrdal added...
...than 30 years. His art is in many respects highly pictorial, yet in the most developed films his complicated intellect adds dimension to the straightforward impact of the images. In The Black Cat and The Naked Dawn, initially simple confrontations are made ambiguous by Ulmer's elusive concept of morality. The camera often works against the script in directing audience sympathies, and should we feel secure in our assessment of character relationships, Ulmer will invariably undermine the status quo and shift the dramatic balances. Consequently, Ulmer presents dozens of ideas in terms of changing moral alternatives, choices presented both...
...says Barzun, has led the universities to undertake Government or foundation projects that other agencies may be better equipped to handle. "A dozen of the leading universities," he says, "are now managing large programs of urban renewal and race relations, engaging in the improvement of- housing and rehabilitation of moral derelicts, uplifting economically depressed areas, or supplying art to the community-all this without evidence that they are equipped with the talent, organization or experience to succeed." Barzun agrees with the late Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset that the university "has abandoned almost entirely the teaching or transmission of culture...
...Ignazio Silone is one of the world's few gainfully employed freelance socialists. He adopted this rubric 40 years ago, after a series of political and moral crises persuaded him that Russian-dominated Communism was a perversion of Marxist and humanitarian ideals. He had been a founder of the Italian Communist Party, a shadow person in the anti-Fascist underground, a delegate to Moscow convocations of the faithful and an exile from Mussolini's Italy. In 1930, he settled in Switzerland, and stayed for 14 years, writing novels. His best was Bread and Wine (1937), the story...
...Roots. Unlike many socialists, Silone cares less for the transitory causes and effects of history than for the preservation of the human values that he believes are part of "our paleo-Christian heritage." In essence, he says, "this consists of the permanent validity of certain moral values designed to rescue mankind's communal living from the laws of the jungle." Though the statement slides over the instinctual courtesies that wild animals extend to one another, Silone clearly believes that man is the animal fated to strive for perfection. Perfection is objectified in ideals, and to Silone the ideal...