Word: righteous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...short, angry letters and righteous Crimson editorials are helpful but insufficient. Harvard must be persuaded to allow some form of student participation in faculty intention decisions. The College must commit itself to quality undergraduate education and not to academic one-upsmanship. Importantly, student, must not lost night of the real problem: we have no ability to defend our interests at Harvard-Radcliffe because we are excluded from the University's autocratic decision-making processes. Only with an adequate understanding of the problems we face can we begin to find solutions for them. Michael G. Colantuono...
...defy self-righteous students such as Cecil McNab to sit still and expouse "academic freedom" when a KKK member comes to deliver a speech at the Law School in which he calls Blacks "inferior" or in some way brings back the most pernicious racial slander perpetrated by pseudo-Darwinists at the beginning of this century. Mr. McNab's view represents, quite simply, the most blatant of double standards. Is his understanding of free speech that we must listen to such virulence as Rahman's in silence? Would he condemn the Falwell "hecklers" or those who protest at ACSR meetings...
Eight thousand miles away, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher herself standing on shifting political soil, drew Britannia's rustling sword from its scabbard and let a righteous charge in the name of self-determination that lifted her national prestige to a level from which it has yet to substantially descend...
...then Reagan's audience could begin to see a halo glow faintly over his head and hear the rustle of feathers above. He warned against "modern-day secularism" and marched holier than thou into the forbidding swamps of abortion and teen-age sex. Reagan's righteous arm held high the Declaration of Independence ("mentions the Supreme Being no less than four times") and our coinage ("In God we trust...
...America's recognition of the PLO), and then call for negotiations without preconditions over the future of the West Bank. Such an action is, of course, entirely improbable, since all the protestations heard from the PLO about its truly peaceful intentions are, much like Mr. Bisharat's letter, self-righteous claptrap. Eric Stecket...