Word: upliftment
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Clarifying my stand, any interest I may take in this contemporary hog-wash and sticky twaddle handed out by the so-called name bands of today is merely to uplift, to purge for the benefit of you cats, to reform jazz style back to the days of its pristine glory--the days when jazz was the finest expression of The American Ideal and a bulwark of democracy. When those things go, where is America? But I have been trying to uplift the present stuff and even my enemies, of whom I have legion, will admit that my attempt has been...
...United Artists). To hear a movie called a "class picture" sends a chill down the hardened cinemaddict's spine. "Class picture" is a trade term for films with a better than average cast, a resolutely esthetic director, and uplift. They are aimed at people who want ideas with their entertainment. Often they are made from second-rate novels with a purpose. Usually they are bores, frequently they are flops. At their best, class pictures can be as good as We Are Not Alone, which Paul Muni and Flora Robson strove (in vain) to bring to life. Or they...
...talk to each other and to our customers of our great love for the dear public and of the duty and privilege of slaving endlessly that it may be well served, we are dangerously close to maudlin sentimentality. ... I would like to see a reaction from . . . back-slapping uplift . . . and plain, unmitigated bunk...
...ardently but, alas, so vainly fought to preserve Europe and the world. Before our eyes now passes a vision of mad horror and gloomy despair. ... In a tumultuous life, this race has known hours of agony and periods of apparent death, but it has also seen days of uplift and resurrection." Pope Benedict XV said of Belgium: "Nations do not die." Pope Pius XII said of Poland: "Poland, which does not intend to die." And although he urged Poles not to give way to despair, not to harbor rancor through hate, he added to an audience of Poles...
...letter (excerpt from Buck's indenture: "I advise that the courses at this institution be arranged, first, with special reference to the training of preachers, teachers, lawyers, and physicians, because these are most in the public eye, and by precept and example can do most to uplift mankind...