Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play that refutes its title, a disagreeable "dark comedy" about a group of people that even the Elizabethans must have found hard to like. It is filled with endless talk of the sort that verges on self-parody. Its complicated plot lacks both adequate motivation and suspense, and its moral is that the end justifies the means. One can sympathize with the magnitude of the challenge that director Allen King accepted. Even if the result cannot be considered a success, individual performances, a few scenes, and much of the technical side of the production are surprisingly good...
...shocked at such outspoken moral lassitude. Yet I feel only pity for those who engage in this pursuit of "freedom," not realizing that they are undermining the basis of civilization: the family. What these "freedom fighters" advocate (whether or not they realize it) is moral anarchy, which leads to social anarchy and barbarianism...
Meanwhile, OEO announced that new criteria for anti-poverty personnel specifically bar persons showing "disloyalty" to the U.S. and those "recently convicted of a crime involving moral turpitude"-a tacit admission that complaints about loose hiring practices (and loose-living workers) had some validity. Then, part of a confidential report by the Powell committee staff that criticized some OEO projects was obtained by the New York Post. The published news story depicted serious troubles at a Job Corps center at New Jersey's Camp Kilmer. An OEO spokesman responded that Kilmer is "one of our better camps," adding lamely...
...play is symptomatic of British attempts since the end of World War II to adjust to lost world influence. The frustrating impotence of vanished power masquerades as the moral virtue of a troubled conscience. Going off on tangents, staging diversionary incidents, piling on self-indulgent rhetoric: all these would have been enough to spoil the play. But Arden has a much more drastic flaw. He tries to practice consensus drama, a contradiction in terms. For Serjeant Musgrave's Dance to possess any intrinsic vitality, there would have to be a respectable body of thought holding that war is heavenly...
...Americans prided ourselves on championing China's modernization and self-determination. We considered ourselves above the nasty imperialism and power politics of the Europeans. We developed a self-image of moral superiority. The Open Door and benevolence toward Chinese nationalism became the bases of our Far Eastern policy until war with Japan brought us up against the realities of power politics. Then we began to realize, for almost the first time, that the power structure of East Asian politics had been held together by the British navy in the nineteenth century, and by the British and Japanese navies under...