Word: virtuouse
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...LADY?Melodramatic reunion of the virtuous chorus girl, the worthless husband, the luckless infant, the irate grandfather?well played and still luxuriously emotional...
Frances E. Willard. Here is a woman who has been regarded as the embodiment of the aggressively virtuous. Her very humanity has been squeezed from her by her admirers. Mr. Dibble means to change all that. He tries to show the irrepressible naughtiness underlying the intolerable perfection. She is interesting for two reasons: her career marks "the definite entrance of woman into the field of political and moral reform"; and "she was a woman who led an unusually rich and varied existence...
...America's favorite author. As a literary phenomenon, he is astounding. Why has he succeeded so vastly? In the first place, he tells a story, and nearly always an old enough one so as not to unduly tax the public brain. His books are clean, his heroines beautiful and virtuous, his villains black as sin. Each of his books contains a moral idea. He writes badly, but directly. He is sincere?he uses his cliches as if no one had used them before. And he is completely and happily impervious to criticism...
...therefore St. Paul's words appeal to us. They have in fact a peculiarly modern ring, for the first impression they produce is that of measuring the value of acts by the results attained rather than by the moral purpose involved. We are prone to rate among the virtuous those who have conferred benefits upon mankind regardless of the motives that actuated them; and the effect is good, insofar as it encourages others to do the like. But this is not the attitude expressed by St. Paul in the text. He is treating only of works done for what...
...English Speaking Union, the Pilgrim Society, the Sons of St. George. Probably nothing but his artistic sense of the exigencies of the stage prevented the commissioner from adding the names of all American citizens of British ancestry who are not ashamed of their forbears, and leaving among the virtuous and patriotic only such Americans as claim unadulterated European, Asiatic or African descent...