Word: righteous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Alexander's mother Emilie (Ewa Froling) is fair and frail, a concordance of traditional wifely virtues. Love and duty are as one to her, so when Oscar dies, she allows herself to receive the attentions of the town's righteous young bishop, Edvard Vergerus (Jan Malmsjo). Beyond her sense of responsibility is a feeling her children can neither understand nor sanction: Vergerus kindles an erotic flame she never knew with dear, fudgy Oscar. When Emilie, Fanny and Alexander move into the Vergerus household they find that it allows no other light...
...addition to tutoring, food programs and teach-ins concerning the effect of military spending on social services, the Seymour Society this year helped organize a local march against drug usage. Admitting that some perceive the society as "self-righteous," former president Jacqueline O. Cooke '83 defends the group's outward goals and tactics: "We're really struggling to challenge racism at its deepest roots, not simply trying to get Blacks into Harvard." Echoing criticisms of the BSA's lack of concern for national issues and community work, about 15 students in 1981 picketed a BSA-sponsored cabaret held...
...Orwellian world of the United Nations, illusion becomes reality by majority vote. Arab delegates will flock to the well-publicized summer meeting. For three days, self-righteous accusations will pollute Vienna's air and, in all likelihood, the meeting will conclude with yet another anti-Israel resolution. The Arab nations will have won a propaganda victory, and the United Nations will not have moved one step closer to ending apartheid...
Thank you for the great article on Congressman Pepper. He won my 62-year-old heart when I saw him bristling with righteous indignation and forcing his way into that stacked meeting on aging at the White House...
...head of her Salvation Army. Sarah has the misfortune to be at stake in a bet between Nathan Detroit, who needs a quick $1000 to finance his crap game, and "Sky" Masterson, a rich gambler looking for action. Detroit has but Sky that he cannot get the righteous Sister Sarah to go with him to Havana...