Word: morality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...says in my copy of TIME that Jacques Maritain, at the M.I.T. convocation, looked for "the basis for a moral order in a process of reason about the essences of God, man, and things [TIME, April 11]," while Walter Stace looked to "the psychological laws of human behavior"-and yet that Stace is the "wooly-minded...
...wooly-minded TIME editor who characterized Walter Stace's attempt at a solution of the problem of moral standards as "wooly-minded," an onion. To Princeton's clear-thinking Professor Stace, an orchid...
...Russians had stubbornly refused to let her leave. Close to a thousand U.S., British and French husbands who had married Russian girls, said Santa Cruz, were in the same predicament. The Soviet decree forbidding Russian women married to foreigners to leave the country was a moral outrage...
With Stratton to keep the facts straight and tough-minded Director Sam Wood (Command Decision, Pride of the Yankees, etc.) behind the cameras, The Stratton Story avoids the obvious temptations to jerk extra tears and belabor its moral. Jimmy Stewart plays Monty and, under Stratton's coaching, does a good deal of plausible (but not very hefty) hurling without calling in a double. Except for a bit of sly mugging in the early scenes, Stewart turns in a solid, heart-warming performance with some attractive short-stopping by June Allyson as Mrs. Monty. He also gets solid support from...
...also hit the U.S. for its policy of supporting reaction in both Greece and Turkey, calling it a moral disgrace for Spain to be a member of either the U.N. or the Atlantic Pact. Aiken posed an unanswered question on how to deal with the "unrest of desperate men which gives birth to totalitarianism...