Word: moralizing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...find Lawrence Thompson neither the cynical lip-smacking of one doing an expose nor the pretensions of a psychoanalyst. He shows no moral distaste for his subject. Thompson (with the equivalent of a straight face) describes events which reveal Frost to be not Santa Claus, not Albert Schweitzer, not America's favorite nostalgia-evoking bumpkin, but a modern man with popular modern dilemmas such as neurosis, guilt and ambition. We see him terrified of ruin and failure, compensating for his fear with self-aggrandizement, exploitation of friends, and uncompromising demands on his family. Frankly, I'm almost relieved. Somehow...
...hired by the owners, dressed Bouton down in public. Auggie Busch, part-time beer baron and part-time baseball impresario, called the book a "disgrace." The reasons for the attack are unimportant. What matters is that one book could cause so many supposedly even-tempered men to exhibit a moral outrage unequalled since Carrie Nation smashed her first saloon...
...ideas and had not tried to "brainwash" the rest of the panel. It was clear that the minority was not intimidated. Charles Keating Jr., the only Nixon appointee on the commission-the rest, as the Administration had stressed, were named by Lyndon Johnson-branded the report "a declaration of moral bankruptcy," "the epitome of government-gone-berserk," and "a travesty preordained by the . . . prejudice of its chairman...
THIS BOOK is set in that unlikely decade, the fifties, when nothing happened and everyone fell asleep. The setting is Indianapolis (of all places), and the historical-social landmarks of the narrative include Eisenhower, Brando, Joe McCarthy and the Red Menace, Dave Brubeck, Time, Moral Re-Armament, the Saturday Evening Post, Chet Baker, frats, the first jet transport, Roger Bannister and the four-minute mile, the "new mature Sinatra," and drive...
...pals drink away the hot summer, fighting with parents, wondering about Communists and existentialism, they find themselves increasingly trapped in the world of Moral Re-Armament and rat races that their parents have bequeathed to them. Temporary relief is found in wild (and funny) masturbation orgies and sexual fantasies, which somehow never seem to make their way into reality...