Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...glorification of the ruling classes, and through teaching their subjects and slaves to stand in awe of them. With magisterial rod in hand, Mr. Sinclair proceeds to classify as evil all those writers who consciously or unconsciously voice the propaganda of the ruling classes, or who write without a moral purpose...
...trust that a sufficient number of Senators who have not been seduced to political apostasy by the family sap bucket, or gorged into stupefaction by buckwheat cakes and Vermont maple syrup, or lulled to moral insensibility by the melody of waves breaking against the prow of the Mayflower- I trust there are enough left to vote against delivering the Department of Justice into the hands of the Sugar Trust...
Henry Seidel Canby - "By no means the moral document. ... It is a 'hardboiled' story of a 'hardboiled' youth, whose tough idealism is a thousand miles and a century away from the transcendental philosophy of Emerson's home'." 'Goodbye, proud world, I'm going home...
...dealing with immoral publications differs somewhat from the Comstockian* method. Last week, one Otto Rostock walked into the office of Herr Hugo Bettaur, publisher of a "villainously immoral magazine." He fired directly at the publisher, who fell, wounded. Rostock announced to the police that he wished to "arouse the moral sentiment of Vienna...
...that is reflective of such high ideals. It is on a par with all that is mean and laughable on Main Street. It is upon the rejection of this sapless philosophy, upon the conviction that the rising generation has a right to the respect which its intellectual and moral qualities can call forth, and upon the principles of Independence and Liberalism that the CRIMSON has attempted to build its editorial policy...