Word: morals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this panel medieval Artist Cranach shows a slim Venus, draped in a diaphanous veil wagging a warning finger at a pug-nosed Cupid who has pulled a honeycomb from a tree, and suffered severe bee stings as a result. In the upper right hand corner Medievalist Cranach appended his moral: Dum Puer Alveola Furatur Mella Cupido, Furanti Digit um Cuspite Ficit Apis. Sic Etiam Nobis Brevis et Peritura Voluptas Quam Petimus Tristi Mixta Dolore Nocet.* Because of the retreat of many of the best early paintings, the show leans heavily on the mystical 19th Century Romantics that for a brief...
...swift executive action; through the decisive March days, through the tumult round banks and public works and beer, through the birth of the blue eagle. Here is Mr. Lippman praising the emergency legislation in March, 1933, growing warier in the late spring, doubting carnestly by July, when he sees "moral coercion by means of the blue eagle and the boycott" forcing small businesses into line with the N. R. A.'s strict discipline toward an undefined objective. He writes incisively of the logic behind general strikes, while the San Francisco movement of July, 1934, is dying because its leaders refuse...
...from the partisan gas-clouds that filled the air at the time they were written, and fill it now more than ever. To the cry of inflation, he retorts with the magic word reflation, with the absolute need and desirability of a controlled expansion of credit. To the preposterous moral arguments about the abrogation of the gold clause, he replies with humor, and point to the obvious realities regarding promises to pay in gold that extend far beyond the resources of banks and governments. The curious and widely-accepted talk about the New Deal's communism or fascism, he answers...
...matter of ecclesiastical etiquette, Father Coughlin had presumably asked and received Archbishop McNicholas' permission to speak within the limits of his archdiocese. Any further responsibility, the organizer of the Legion of Decency was prompt to disclaim. Cracked he: "As the public and responsible teacher of morality in this community I cannot let pass statements attributed to Father Coughlin in the daily press. When Father Coughlin says, within the limits of this diocese, that he advocates the use of bullets . . . I must on moral grounds protest and condemn such a statement. . . . I must condemn the statement which seems clearly...
...Douglas entered the field of fiction by "sheer accident in 1929, after having written sermons and essays for 25 years. His first three novels, Green Light (1934), Forgive Us Our Trespasses (1932), Magnificent Obsession (1929), sold more than 340,000 copies. Similar to those works in its fine moral tone, its unabashed sentimentality, and the neat working out of a plot which brings all characters to happy conclusions, White Banners also carries a plea for forgiveness and unquestioning self-sacrifice in the face of the multitudinous tribulations of modern life, and dramatizes the message that patience, courage and service...