Young Tom Edison, worried without any obvious reason that the town is in need of "moral rearmament," wishes for a test of its virtues, a real-life "illustration" (one of his favorite words) of his vague notions of community and responsibility.
Edouard actually signed a declaration of moral rearmament.
"There was speculation that Hunte's continuous proselytising for his [moral rearmament] beliefs even within the dressing-room told against him."
With war seemingly inevitable, he joined such other British athletes as the runners Harold Abrahams and Sidney Wooderson, the golfer Bernard Darwin, the cricketer Len Hutton and the jockey Gordon Richards in calling for "moral rearmament through sport."
Keyes was a committed Christian and a supporter of the Oxford Group and its principles of "moral rearmament", as well as an active freemason.
In 1993 he successfully proposed adding a television news report parody called "Zerorama", "telling events of moral rearmament", in which he used a mode of presentation and tone inspired by newsreels of the Vichy regime under Philippe Pétain in order to satirise Édouard Balladur's government and the media supporting it.
"I'm an economist - I focus on what can be done, not moral rearmament," said Ms. Rose-Ackerman.
The town is seen from the point of view of Tom Edison Jr., an aspiring writer who procrastinates by trying to get his fellow citizens together for regular meetings on the subject of "moral rearmament."
In fact, odd as it would have sounded to an adult, I joined the House when it was in a stern mood of moral rearmament.