Word: upliftment
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...excellent and unobtrusive set and supplied with equally good properties and costumes, makes poignant again the hardship of that era. Delivering Odet's studied commonplace speech with all the humor it deserves and the sense of tragedy that ultimately underlies it, the production imparts the old-fashioned feeling of uplift the play was undoubtedly meant to convey...
...Village Voice, or the pretentiousness of Eugenia Collier in the Sunday Times two weeks ago. Sarris attacked what he called "UNESCO-inclined critics," proclaiming that those who like Conrack (and other more-or-less "message" movies, including Sounder and Hoa Binh) are hopeless much-headed idealists, overwhelmed by uplift. But the critics Mad Andrew wrote about are figments of his imagination, since the only famous critics who praised the film (Kael and Kauffmann) are rigorous, not at all the "melting marsh-mallows" of his bile-ridden column. Sarris took potshots at the actual Conroy as well as at the film...
...wide variety of life styles, on relativism and tolerance--or indifference--on calmness and objectivity--or docility and moral resignation--it is a good and necessary thing to remember that there are things which are right and things which are wrong; things which demean and things which uplift; men who are true to themselves, and men who live a lie; acts which are cruel and wrong, and acts which are just and right. "A writer," comments Solzhenitsyn in The First Circle, "is a moral teacher; and this he is and has been, at the risk, and nearly at the loss...
Jonathan Livingston Seagull is the warmest, most goodhearted, most tuneful (score by Neil Diamond) piece of moral uplift since the musical version of Lost Horizon. Years hence, scholars may debate the significance of the fact that the wise elder in Shangri-La and the wise bird here are both called Chiang. Surely it is no mere coincidence. A homage, perhaps. Or maybe a moment of mystic communion, a stroke of magic enlightenment of the sort that Jonathan is always shoving his beak into...
Despite the uplift, Gomes returned to Harvard in the fall of 1970 at Price's invitation. "The one thing I wanted to do and couldn't do at Tuskegee," he said, "was to preach and teach as a minister, [Price's offer] was an opportunity to be identified as a Christian minister and live out that opportunity...