Word: piousness
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Abscam has led to the conviction on corruption charges of 16 persons, including seven members of Congress and one senator. All of them, despite abundant and expensive legal counsel, have failed to prove they were entrapped. His pious rambling on the Senate floor notwithstanding. Harrison A. Williams remained a man convicted on nine counts of bribery, conspiracy, receiving an unlawful gratuity, contact of interest and interstate travel in aid of racketeering. To waste time and sympathy on crooks and bums like Williams opens liberal up to charges of caring only about their own and undermines the effectiveness of the government...
Isarah, whose pious exhortation to the Jews to "Learn to do good, search for justice, help the oppressed..." prefaced McKibben's piece, also promised his listener that in return for such good behavior, Israel would be set above other nations, and that the others, "with their faces to the ground they how down to you, and lick the dust of your feet." God's justice is not what we might nowadays call universal...
Politics unfortunately enter the classroom, too. A pious piece appearing in the Independent last year suggested that we "leave our ideological baggage at the door" of fair Harvard. We do not nor do our professors. To many of them, we do not exist. How can you teach a human sexuality course without discussing gay people? How can you teach a course on the Holocaust without mentioning the deaths of at least 250,000 gays? But professors do. They fail us, and non-gays too, not deliberately, but through a lack of awareness...
...action in a Husky uniform, Nilan saw the strategic window to the pros opening when he was offered a contract and promptly bagged his senior year. And, oh, yes it wasn't just any NHL team that Nilan got an offer from. It was those standard bearers of the pious tradition of the puck, the Montreal Canadiens...
...physical and spiritual health. She was a fierce evangelical Protestant, and her husband, a prosperous and essentially self-educated wine importer, was a worshiper of art. The minimum they expected of him, he commented later, was that he should "write poetry as good as Byron's only pious...