Word: righteous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...session group and the considerable singing and songwriting talents of Kim Wilson, who also blows a mean blues harp. There is a lot of inbreeding in the T-Birds' music: Zydeco, blues and rock, Keith Richards and Bob Wills. But the sound they tap out of all this is righteous and roughhouse, good enough to get even the bouncers dancing...
HOLD THE APPLAUSE. Before we congratulate the liberals and the Black community for recognizing the "crisis in the Black family," we should ensure that their response isn't an ineffective and self-righteous treatment of a critical problem...
...problem is not teenage sex but teenage motherhood, except in the eyes of self-righteous individuals who seek to impose their values on others. Moralizing is no substitute for policy recommendations to prevent teen motherhood and to make women self-sufficient as single parents...
...course, the common citizen often benefits from various "special interest" breaks (for example, a deduction for home mortgages or state and local taxes). One man's loophole is another man's socially useful allowance, and one's man's lobbyist is another man's righteous advocate. Nonetheless, the voices most likely to be heard are often the ones that can afford the best- connected access brokers...
...chocolate milk, says the self-righteous defender of the status quo on the right. That's great too. And so is working to relieve crowding and getting students storage space and protecting the CUE Guide. But that is no excuse for ignoring student views on important moral and policy issues--issues like divestment, or minority admissions...