Word: morals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary of State, the intellectual or sentimental adhesion of many to the said principles, their inclusion in many treaties between nations or in a document of greater scope aiming at defining the rules of life common to all States, will have, we believe, the effect of a certain moral pressure, but will produce rather limited practical action. We would be mistaken if we were to expect important results therefrom...
Flautist Johnson believes that amateur music is the moral equivalent of athletics, as much good fun as bowling or stud poker. Save for a chapter on "The Art of Coming In." in which he details the feelings of a flautist resting for 74 measures of a Haydn symphony in the knowledge that he must enter on the first beat of the 75th, Author Johnson gives little practical advice in his lean volume. He suggests that none but home-players thoroughly enjoy concert performances such as one he heard of Mozart's Erne Kleine Nachtmusik (whence his book...
Once the Christian churches, through their moral codes and their theological dialectic, impinged powerfully upon the behavior and thoughts of ordinary men. Today many a nominal Christian is tired of hearing about morals, and his uninformed indifference to theology is such that his pastors burden him with as little of it as possible. .In recent years churchmen have entered the more fruitful fields of economics and sociology, which to a great extent were tilled before the clergy arrived. Twice last week this new sociological trend of religion made news...
...member of the State Labor Board. He returns to Catholic University, where in 1922 he took his Ph.D. with a thesis on "Mediation in the Men's Garment Industry," to emphasize the Church's economic teachings, train priests and laymen in organizing social-minded Catholic groups, apply moral laws to economic life. At the University Monsignor Haas will encounter, among other kindred priests, a newly-appointed philosophy professor, Monsignor George Barry O'Toole, founder of the Catholic Radical Alliance in Pittsburgh (TIME, June...
Until this week Mabel Dodge Sterne Luhan had successfully concealed from most readers the fact that the three volumes of her Intimate Memories (Background, European Experiences, Movers and Shakers), most scandalous of contemporary autobiographies, were written at the urge of a moral purpose as lofty as any that ever moved a penitent at a revival meeting. Now in Edge of Taos Desert Mabel Dodge reveals how, in 1917, at Taos, N. Mex., she was converted by a ''spiritual therapy" which wiped out the effect of 38 years of neurotic floundering, beginning as a poor little rich girl...