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Response is not self-righteous enough to presume that we can serve as the only resource for a woman whose lover has hit her, or even to define her relationship as a "battered relationship...
...Multi-Culti Books: Under this heading I include both I. (Third) World literature and 2. the whiney, self-righteous tirades against those books by conservative reactionaries. The fascination with the books in the former sub-division emerges from the liberal disdain for hieracrchy. Classical Mongolian verse simply cannot be any better or worse than Milton, the true multiculti declares. I'll grant the fundamental equality of all the world's literature when the deans of leading medical schools across America supply their students with Rwandan anatomy text-books on the grounds that they're all the same anyhow...
...community, we feel we must respond to David B. Lat's spiteful and logically vapid column on National Coming Out Day ("Those Happy Homos," Opinion, Oct. 18, 1994). While Lat is free to write about his own opinions, he should base his opinions on facts, not on his self-righteous and incoherent political and religious views...
...decision making and wary of advice, he found himself relying more and more on friends, fund raisers and political allies to undertake a national campaign. He and his advisers decided to temper his fabled ferocity, and he began lacing his speeches with references to brotherly love rather than to righteous anger...
...Midnight Train to Georgia around the operating table). Kelley tries to bring the format into the '90s: one early plot line involves a woman whose hmo won't allow her brain-tumor operation to be performed by the more experienced surgeons at Chicago Hope. Yet these doctors are self-righteous heroes of the old TV school. Hospital executive, arguing against performing the dangerous Siamese-twin operation: "Our job is to look at the overall picture." Surgeon: "I held those babies in my arms...