Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...extending his political career into the future, no one can blame him. The British public might be amused or scandalized, either of which would be undesirable. Moreover, the former premier is faced with a serious problem in practical ethics. Dress, it seems, may be at the same time both moral and immoral, depending on whether the final public judgment agrees with convention or the German enthusiasts. If convention is right, Mr. Lloyd-George should not have been caught by the camera-man in such a Garden-of-Eden setting. But, if the naked culturists are right, he should have climbed...
...CRIMSON says that such is the condition, and moreover, that it is inevitable it should be so." A passage from Plato is introduced to describe this conflict of ideas in the individual of which the destruction of previously held moral conceptions in the logical issue, . . . as if it had been written especially for the present generation." After explaining that there are opposing principles, those of justice and honor and those of pleasure, the great Philosopher continues...
...against vice in New York City and his fearless denunciations of the Modernist movement from the pulpit have gained Dr. Straton nation-wide prominence as the leader of the Fundamentalists. Modern dancing, in his booklet titled "The Dance of Death," is denounced as degenerate and destructive to the moral fiber of a nation, and the spectacle of a prize fight makes him wonder if we have again "relapsed into Paganism...
Chaes would inevitably destroy the whole moral fabric of society as well as impede the physical progress of human-kind...
...remedy he would propose a return to the "old time religion". The CRIMSON says that such is the condition, and moreover, that it is inevitable it should be so. The conflict of ideas in the individual of which the destruction of previously held moral conceptions is the logical issue, was described by Plato and his analysis reads as if it had been written especially for the present generation...