Word: moral
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...sacks, often trudged along the nearby railroad tracks in winter to gather stray lumps of coal. But the parents had something more valuable than material advantages to give. "We grew up," recalls Dean's elder brother Roger, a University of Tennessee physics professor, "in a strict atmosphere of moral integrity, imposed by both parents and schoolteachers. We were under constant admonition to excel, to go out in the world and do something. Be different, do your best, they told us. We were always striving for excellence...
...corporal (John Eraser) for walking out with his daughter (Susannah York). A court-martial is indicated. The colonel generously refuses to order it. To his amazement, the battalion interprets his generosity as weakness, and old Jock cannily abets the error. The train is laid that leads to a moral catastrophe in which both men are destroyed...
Raphael Demos, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, said he was not surprised that "the vagaries of Christmas Day" had made inroads into his lecture course. But expressed regret that his Wednesday Phil 1 lecture might be heard by few students...
With all its various vitalities, the script perpetuates the more serious defects of the novel, and these are not technical but moral defects. The film is pro-Semitic. Well and good; it is good for the soul, whether Jewish or Christian, to be reminded that the Jewish culture and community have survived 2,000 years and more of persecution not only because many Jews are brilliant but also because many are brave. But even though competent historians, in determining who started the civil war, refuse to excuse either side, the film unequivocally blames the Arabs, absolutely absolves the Jews. Then...
...people who are really doing some exceptional things in their field ... are makes the whole field come alive or speak to you..." Yet even where the graduates disagreed on researcher vs. teacher, there was a consensus that the appeal of a good teacher was not only intellectual, but moral. They retained not so much the content of the lecture or course, but the style of thought and behavior of the teacher: "You're always going to forget what they say to you ... but you can never forget his love and his devotion for it, this you will never forget...