Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Morality will continue as long as there is conversation. And the world will remain divided between those who are moral and those who are unmoral as long as there is the need of a subject for conversation. Students of ethics will beg or smile as the case may be but tabloids and bromides will define the morality of the future even as they do the morality of today, and some will buy "True Stories" and others will read "American Mercuries" while the Transcripian mind still understands that the ultimate cause, the efficient reason is a benificent Santa Claus with butter...
...Morality will continue and magazines will continue. So not alone will the subway sensual glean his grit from pink periodicals of dubious editing, but the uniformed saviour of souls and director of difficulties, moral, matrimonial and vehicular will find some journal of the haute monde of cleverness and thin satire on which to base his belief that the movies are right, that sin sits in high places. There will be times when other papers, with even less to damn them than "Hatrack" and less to sell them than Mencken, rest in naughty niches safe from the gaze of the Bostonian...
...wide circulation of the new journals, it appears to be a public relishing news of a domestic nature, editorials couched in simple sentences and expressing the precepts of simpletons, and, above all, pictures illustrating stories of comprehensible disgrace or honor. It finds equal and not different attraction in moral turpitude and mundano triumph; on the one hand, robberv murder, and divorce; on the other, limerick contests, daring rescues, and political coups...
Although they have undoubtedly added moral and social simple-mindedness to political chicanery, long the besetting sin of journalism, the tabloids have, nevertheless, demonstrated that there is a "Main Street" on Third Avenue. Where Gopher Prairie gobbled private gossip, the Bowery relishes public scandal. Among the millions most unfortunately herded in cities, the starved minds fed by the new press are the literate leaders. It is in part their grotesque reflection in the picture papers that gives shape to the apprehensions of "The New Barbarians" and truth to the pessimism of "The Phantom Public...
Such tendencies as these divert college life from its proper sphere within the arts and sciences, and place an emphasis upon military training, which even its platitudinous ideals of "better citizenship" and "mental and moral development" can hardly justify...