Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most damaging steel strike dragged toward a court-enforced halt, as the television industry sagged under disclosures of mass deceit and wholesale perjury, newsmen were primed with some uncommonly philosophical questions at the President's press conference last week. Essentially, they were asking: Has American society lost its moral vitality...
Fuller likened the act of making close pitches look like strikes to a lawyer's advocacy--the catcher is simply "presenting a persuasive argument." But, he contended, a football player pretending to be hurt is committing a moral wrong, and engaging in "true deception...
...What I really wanted to point out," he says now, "is that you have to start with a certain attitude in any game, including government. Enforcement of any rule depends on the moral attitude. As Frank Leahy once said, 'A rule that can't be enforced is not a rule...
...picture has been expertly written, directed and produced by an old Hollywood smoothie named Delmer (Destination Tokyo, Kings Go Forth) Daves, but unfortunately Daves's taste is not equal to his technique. Up to a point the story argues for a healthy relativity in morals. But the relativity of A Summer Place is anchored to no absolutes. The film treats adultery as casually as if there were nothing at all holy about matrimony. And along with moral sensitivity, the film lacks social responsibility. The adolescent love scenes are an inflammation to imitation...
...only inconsistent, but hypocritical to take a moral stand against the affidavit, as the Faculty and the Administration have done, and then to imply that the affidavit is quite all right if the College does not have to administer it. If this noxious part of aid to education is to be eliminated, Harvard must refuse to participate in any program demanding such an affidavit, even those in which its only task is to distribute forms or lick a postage stamp...