Word: righteous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Anatomy Lesson lambastes modern culture with the same venom and guilt as its predecessors, and Zuckerman continues to be tormented by the same medusa-like females, self-righteous Jews, and spiteful relatives that have historically oppressed him. Yet if the subjects of The Anatomy Lesson sound all too predictable, the tone of the novel is distinct...
...rude and accusatory, cynical and almost unpatriotic. They twist facts to suit their not-so-hidden liberal agenda. They meddle in politics, harass business, invade people's privacy, and then walk off without regard to the pain and chaos they leave behind. They are arrogant and self-righteous, brushing aside most criticism as the uninformed carping of cranks and ideologues. To top it off, they claim that their behavior is sanctioned, indeed sanctified, by the U.S. Constitution...
Such designs succeed in part by playing upon our fascination with romantic decay. We travel far to admire the remnants of past civilizations. Western art abounds with paintings of ruins, and, in 18th century gardens, architects actually built them. SITE's buildings also mock the self-righteous vacuity of modern suburban architecture. "Hell, we are all scared of technology and what it will do to us," says Wines. An unsettling view of what Wines calls "the American mobilized experience" is offered in the firm's Ghost Parking Lot at the Hamden Plaza shopping center in Hamden, Conn...
...disassociate itself from the South Africa question but must remain involved. The proponents of divestiture would want us to walk away from the problem. In so doing they contribute little to help change the very unacceptable conditions in South Africa. Students should be totally unconvinced by this self-righteous stance. The South African problem is not in determinable and Harvard University can play an important role in influencing change...
They are not one of those old brothers acts like the Everly, the Smothers or the Righteous, but Randy and Dennis Quaid occasionally find their separate acting careers intersecting. And the assignment is to play brothers. It happened first when they starred as scruffy outlaw brothers in the 1980 film The Long Riders. This week they will be paired again as they take over the leads in the New York City production of True West, Playwright Sam Shepard's role-switching psycho-comedy. Randy, 33, portrays a degenerate con artist who scuttles out of the desert to antagonize...