Word: morals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With this candid, sympathetic portrait it becomes clearer why Chinese chopsticks have so long been at home in Confucianism's dish: No other ethical system has ever permitted so much moral, mental and worldly comfort under one head...
...plain English readers were pleased as they had not been since J. B. Priestley unfolded from his cocoon. My Son, My Son! is a sad story. But with its generous length (649 pages), plot and number of characters, its easy. Dickensian narrative, a fortifying moral, the story carries its own self-comforting device- not unlike the jet of oil that plays on high-speed emery wheels to prevent tools losing their temper...
...story of two fathers, lifelong friends, and their sons, it differs from most British family novels in one main respect. Instead of portraying the conflict of old and new social forces, it poses a more strictly moral theme: the evil consequences of parents trying to realize their unfulfilled ambitions in their sons. The worse example of deluded fatherhood is William Essex (narrator of the story), who rises from the Manchester slums to fame as a novelist, determines that his only son, Oliver, shall have all the advantages he missed. His friend, Dermot O'Riorden, dedicates his son Rory...
...tastes; in fact, they are usually a little patronizing toward persons who do not share them. But in the days of Henry Van Dyke, Theodore Roosevelt, and Novelist Ralph Connor (The Sky Pilot, The Man from Glengarry], an intellectual who liked to fish felt compelled to discover deep political, moral, social and physical values in fishing, and the literature of that period is filled with accounts of wastrels who quit drinking after a period in the woods, of sick men who got back their health stalking deer, of cynics who got back their faith riding canoes down foaming rapids...
...finger until all the cattle on the ranch have been stolen and a madcap Lindsay girl abducted. Then the slaughter is terrific. Partly confirming Professor Whippie's thesis are strange philosophical asides that interrupt the gun play and suggest that even popular romancers are sometimes troubled by the moral of their tales. Staring at the dangling body of a rustler he has just lynched, Laramie reflects: "It [lynching] was a common practice, inaugurated ... in order to intimidate cowpunchers going wrong. Not greatly had it succeeded...