Word: righteous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lighted this ordinary nightmare as if every boardroom, bedroom and bathroom were on the top floor of the worst little whorehouse in Bavaria: neon pinks and oranges in the toilets, navy blue seats against a sick-yellow wall, clashing as grotesquely as the local big shots do against the righteous Von Bohm. Their avarice is petty bourgeois, the stuff of small-town scandals in any country, but Fassbinder's mise en scene suggests that the subject, as well as the style, is Early Hitler...
...government. Forget some critics' contention that U.S. Jews have no right to speak out because they are not living under Israel's constant stress and turmoil. Their dreams and aspirations are bound up with Israel's, and to shut out their voices smacks of the worst sort of self-righteous censorship. Especially when they are voices of dissent...
...civilian reader simply does not know whether to believe this legend making, retailed by the author in a tone of righteous contempt. Resentment underlies many of the arguments advanced here, and not all of it is directed against the Soviets. The author frets that "the resolve and the military capability of the West had since 1918 been sapped by an uncritical hankering for peace." Among the hankerers, they comment snidely, were what Lenin called "useful fools," and these fainthearts were quick to join "socalled 'peace movements,' unobtrusively orchestrated and largely paid for by the U.S.S.R...
...been the object of invective from the left, and it always will be. Reagan is, after all, the most conservative President elected in the past half-century. But throughout his long march to the presidency, Reagan had the unfailing loyalty and visceral support of two overlapping constituencies: the morally righteous New Right and the fiscally indignant Old Right. But increasingly, Reagan's zealous supporters feel betrayed by the Administration, if not quite yet by the President himself...
...south west corner of the Yard is a gate bearing in its comet arch, the directive, "Open yo the Gates that the righteous Nation which keeps the truth Entereth in." But this entrance between Strauss Hall and Lahrriun Hall will be locked at least until the middle of September as construction workers move it forward a few feet...