Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Moral Support. But if, in fact, Korean wives often did take their purchases straight to the side streets of Seoul, Pusan and Taegu, which are lined with black markets whose vendors do not even bother to remove the PX labels from their wares, they were not the only source of supply. As one Korean put it: "Much of the stuff never gets to the PX in the first place. It goes straight to the black market from the warehouse." Sometimes it never even gets to the warehouse; last week a truckload of 84 cases of U.S. butter valued...
Meat in the Soup. Similar evidence that religion in Russia is alive is provided by one of the latest Soviet novels to reach the West (via an Italian translation). The Miraculous Icon is a 19th century moral tale in reverse: hero sinks down and down into the depths of Christianity, is saved in the nick of time by conversion to clear-eyed atheism...
...visit to Sardis while Hanfmann was in Turkey on another campaign convinced him that although Chase's pottery finds had been destroyed by vandals, Sardis itself, "this great and famous city must be resurrected, that American scholarship had a moral obligation to resume the work that the first Sardis expedition had begun...
...report further discusses what it calls "the hidden issue of morality" as a factor necessitating the limit on week day hours. "More than likely, it is predominantly the 3.3 per cent who are using these afternoon hours (five times a week) in the pursuit of pleasures worth publishing," the report speculates. the present system, accordingly, encourages "moral infractions...
...last night. "Moreover," the formal statement continued, "it tends to jeopardize the academic obligation of the Divinity school Faculty to promote freedom of inquiry to a wide range of religious and quasi-religious beliefs, as well as to a wide range of critical problems affecting the intellectual, cultural, and moral life...