Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...good deal of fun has been poked at the so-called English attitude of "sport for sport's sake". It has been ridiculed as producing only mediocre, half-hearted athletics and the various "moral victory" explanations of defeat. But whatever its faults, real or imagined, it does point out by contrast some of the defeats in our American adaptation of the Spartan creed: "Gome back with your shield...
...game. Fifteen innings of baseball, everywhere spoken of as one of the finest ever seen on a college diamond, featured by brilliant playing on both sides, is an achievement regardless of the score. There is no disgrace in such a defeat, any more than there is a "moral victory" in it; the whole standard of measurement by victory or defeat has nothing to do with the point. Fifteen innings of such baseball, like the football game with Penn State last fall, can do more than anything else to defeat the spirit of "anything to win" which tends to undermine American...
...watch an automobile accident, or a dub being photographed; just as what O. Henry called "professional rubberneckers" have dons from time immemorial. But all this overflow of curiosity to gaze on champions, or white elephants, for that matter, is certainly not now and does not indicate a state of moral depravity any more now that it did in the days of that prince of "rubberneckers", Samuel Pepys, who "did wait two hours to behold the King his progress at the Whitehall Stairs. A very sorry show indeed...
...this alluring advice leads to a concrete moral-Work! The task that Sir James has proposed is not the easiest; words will not bring it to pass. It will mean learning to understand our elders and the world, shouldering responsibilities, pursuing that elusive phantom, Truth...
...which have brought distress and ruin upon her. Whether the clique of tyrants who are responsible for her fatuous course with its disastrous results will mend their ways and conform to the economic principles which the world in general is agreed upon as essential to prosperity, and to those moral principles which will permit other nations to enter into confident and friendly relations with her, is a question which only the future can answer. But whatever they do, the course of Western Europe and of America is plain. If Russia will not rise to their standard, they must not degrade...