Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Department official. He argues that most poor nations (the polite expression used to be underdeveloped countries, but now planners speak of "emerging peoples") lack the distribution system necessary to get large quantities of free food to the people who need it-partly because their governments have not yet accepted moral responsibility for ensuring that every citizen should get an adequate diet. "And if the U.S. offered to construct such a distribution system," adds the official drily, "I do not think such men as Nehru and his Cabinet ministers would take kindly to our giving them a lesson in morals...
...film has its failures. The movie hero is pretty much an overgrown boy scout who never experiences the moral struggles that beset the hero of the book. Then, too, the story sometimes lags-not, oddly enough, because it is too long but because it is too short. For the final script, M-G-M eliminated an entire subplot that gives the middle of the story its shape and suspense. But the religious theme is handled with rare restraint and good taste. The face of Christ is never fully revealed. The Sermon on the Mount, The Trial. The Ascent of Calvary...
...mistake of thinking those TV cameras are branches of the United States Mint. Dollar bills don't come out of them like bread from a bakery oven." This advice by Disk Jockey Dick Clark appears in a new book, Your Happiest Years (Rosho Corp.; $2.95), aiming sound moral advice at teenagers. Yet in a mere three years, ever since he took over the local Philadelphia show that grew into ABC's American Bandstand, Dick Clark has found plenty of bread in the oven. Among the loaves: three other ABC shows, an advice-to-teeners column in This Week...
What I have proposed is, I recognize, a hypothesis, but I advance it as a more plausible explanation of French actions than the moral shortcomings Mr. Rothenberg denounces. Lino Zambrana, Teaching Felow In Social Relations...
...goal, the varsity bench went wild; the previously injured Marsh McCall led the celebration of this5Left wing LARRY EKPEBU crashes into Columbia fullback EKKEHARD BOELLERT in the Columbia contest that ended in a scoreless tie. The Lions, who are not yet in the Ivy League, could claim a moral victory over a Crimson eleven that just couldn't bring itself to go all-out. Ekpebu played center forward was a dangerous scoring threat, a Yashy dribbler, and, above all, an exciting performer. Along with seven other seniors in the starting lineup, he will be missed next season...