Word: morals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When in 1910 Theodore Roosevelt thus roared at his rebellious protégé, William Howard Taft, most U. S. citizens knew instantly what he meant. Through the latter half of the 19th Century most of the nation's schoolchildren learned about Meddlesome Mattie, many another moral, immoral or amoral character in William Holmes McGuffey's famed series of Eclectic Readers. Today McGuffey's Eclectics have vanished from most schoolrooms but William Holmes McGuffey lives on as the hero of a nostalgic cult unique in educational history...
...another lame dog for the same treatment. A Kind Boy freed his caged bird; a Cruel Boy pulled the legs from flies. A Chimney Sweep, coming upon a gold watch, manfully overcame temptation, was rewarded when his employer provided him with an education. Only grim note in this moral feast was the Tease, who frightened a playmate into insanity...
...left Miami in 1836 to become President of Cincinnati College, which foundered three years later. Invited to the presidency of Ohio University (Athens, Ohio), he was exasperated when that, too, was laid low by financial troubles. The last 27 years of his life he passed quietly as professor of moral philosophy at the University of Virginia, where he died "just as the evening sun went down...
...characters purpose was always identified with hypocrisy, devotion to any ideal with ineffectuality or self-deception. Between long highbrow talks, usually on science or art, his characters suffered from boredom, made love or deliberately created trouble to avoid it, were about as uniformly unpleasant a set of moral idiots as any author has created. Not until Point Counter Point, published in 1928, did Author Huxley give evidence of his dissatisfaction with his mood of vast, all-embracing negation. In Rampion, obviously modeled on his friend D. H. Lawrence, he created a character who was sincere without being stupid, kind without...
...incident exacts its influence or leaves its scar, leading Anthony along some path he has undertaken or blocking his way, strengthening some belief he holds about himself and the world or weakening it, forcing him at last to see that his philosophical detachment has been an escape and his moral indifference no more than self-deception. While Helen, after leaving Anthony and her husband, falls in love with a German refugee, becomes a Communist, Anthony travels to Mexico, meets a Quaker philosopher who teaches him nonresistance. Mary Amberley develops from a complete immoralist to a narcotic addict, while most...