Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bothered by all the moral, legalistic and unrealistic arguments over Viet Nam, Military Historian S.L.A. Marshall offers some blunt battlefield advice in the current New Leader. "Long service with the military," admits retired Brigadier General Marshall, "colors my own view." It also "nourishes the suspicion that peace is so important that its safeguarding should not be entrusted exclusively to the judgment of civilians...
Died. Peter Howard, 56, head of Moral Re-Armament, a onetime British rugby hero turned London Daily Express columnist, who in 1941 went to an M.R.A. meeting intending to ridicule the idea, was so taken with it that he ever after devoted his energies and the profits (some $1,120,000) from twelve moral-re-arming books and 16 plays to the movement, eventually becoming its leader after the death of Founder Frank Buchman in 1961; of pneumonia; in Lima, Peru...
Lord Jim is the story of a blue-eyed, boyish sailor whose dreams of glory are lost at sea. Joseph Conrad's intricate turn-of-the-century novel expands a solitary act of cowardice into a moot question about every man's moral identity. As chief mate of the Patna, a leaky old steamer with some 800 Moslem pilgrims aboard, Jim joins his panicky crew in abandoning ship at the threat of a gale, only to meet disgrace when the doomed tub rides it out unattended. Thereafter Conrad's hero drags the ghost of his honor through...
Love Has Many Faces. "This town is a can of worms," says Cliff Robertson, describing the moral pollution of Acapulco. Love makes Mexico's coastal resort look like a terrible place to visit and no fun to live in either, for the beaches are littered with disreputable Americans. One of them is dead-a suicidal beach boy named Billy, who has obviously taken the easy way out of a flabby, overdressed melodrama...
...Author Wouk moves this minor work along in pleasant, soft-shoe style, very welcome .after the heaviness of Youngblood Hawke. And beneath the sagging routines can sometimes be seen a man with a message who got lost. Wouk is no longer at heart a comic writer. He is a moralizer. The burden of his moral is that a man is what he has been: he can do little, perhaps nothing, to break the chains of the past...