Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...script proclaims, "on the bare heart of heroism." Director Robert Rossen, who wrote the script with Ivan Moffat, never gets quite that close to the mystery of courage. But he does examine the nature and conduct of a hero at considerable depth, and he finds in his moral conflicts a stronger motivation for the usual violent action, which in this film is intensified and refined into a genuine parable of the journey of the soul, a sort of Pilgrim's Progress through the Mexican badlands...
...Archbishop in March 1958 under the chairmanship of J. T. (for John Traill) Christie, principal of Oxford's Jesus College. The committee members (a lawyer, a psychiatrist, a philosopher and a theologian) investigated the subject of self-destruction from almost every conceivable angle-historical, legal, medical, moral-and came to the conclusion that considerably more charity is needed all around...
...have concocted with the deliberate purpose of trapping Physicist Bloch in a lapse of loyalty. But the question of why Sebastian indicts his friend with a damaging yarn of his own is only glancingly answered. Chevalier hints that merely working on the A-bomb has corrupted Sebastian's moral sense. Another suggestion is that he has "sold out" to a nebulous power elite and forgotten the "little people." This charge reduces itself to guilt by dissociation: Bloch's crime is not so much libeling a friend as it is ditching his left-wing pals and their causes...
Secondly, Howe continued, the affidavit is a moral evil. "People engaged in education have the moral responsibility to keep their minds free," he said. Howe pointed out that, under the terms of the NDEA, the universities must contribute their own money to the fund, and are thus required to "place restrictions on the use of their own funds." The real issue, he declared, is "can the federal government dictate the terms of education as the result of an infernal inheritance from Senator Joe McCarthy...
...representing the progressive, intellectual elements within the city, has played this linking role of political savvy with moral concern so important to the University. Because of its influence, no threats to turn the Yard into a parking lot or to run the proposed belt highway by Thayer Hall have carried much weight...