Word: righteous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...male companion or a large styrofoam dummy of one. Guidebooks, including the one put out by Harvard Student Agencies, warn them in passing that it's hopeless to get mad at an entire culture. They are rarely in any real danger--any more than at home--and righteous indignation proves extremely difficult to maintain...
Just for fun, Nixon gouges old enemies like liberals, journalists, academicians and anybody he believes to be timid and self-righteous. He tears down what he sees to be myths ("The nuclear freeze is a fraud"). "Confusing real peace with perfect peace is a dangerous but common fallacy," Nixon writes. "Perfect peace is achieved in two places only: in the grave and at the typewriter. . . perfect peace has no historical antecedents and therefore no practical meaning in a world in which conflict among men is persistent and pervasive. If real peace is to exist, it must exist along with...
...network's switchboard with angry calls. On his daily ABC radio show, Supermouth expressed his admiration for Garrett and noted, accurately, that some of his best friends were black, including Muhammad Ali, Willie Stargell and Sugar Ray Leonard. "I was bragging on him [Garrett] with affection," spouted the righteous sportscaster, adding, "My record as far as race relations is supreme...
...Communists were a folk-singing choir who loved picnics, baseball and Joseph Stalin, roughly in that order. Paul Isaacson (Mandy Patinkin) was the party's star tummler, strutting as vivaciously on Death Row as he would have on the Borscht Belt. And Rochelle (Lindsay Grouse) was a righteous, steel-rimmed Yiddish mama...
...principal figures in the Carter campaign and White House were no more sure of how they would have reacted. "It would sound precious and self-righteous to say I would have turned them down," said former Press Secretary Jody Powell, "so I'm not going to say it. I think and hope that I would have...