Word: righteous
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...BEGINNING, THERE WAS RIGHTEOUS indignation. Just three hours after the King verdict was announced, thousands of shocked black residents of South Central Los Angeles gathered at the First African Methodist Episcopal Church. Speaker after speaker denounced the injustice and alienation that are part of their everyday life. Each community leader acknowledged that institutions designed to protect law-abiding citizens had failed them this time, but still some appealed for calm. "Look beside you," said Los Angeles city council member Mark Ridley-Thomas. "These young African Americans are not in the streets...
...noisy streets and legislatures and the bare chambers of the individual conscience, that most fundamental question -- Who decides whether a woman can have an abortion? -- must itself be redecided. With that, America is entering new moral and political territory, rough and uncharted, but lit by the phosphor of righteous certainties. And as the combatants square off with their irreconcilable notions of life and liberty, the middle ground, what there is of it, promises to become scorched earth...
Unfortunately, David Gutmann is less real as second lieutenant Ralph Clark, a self-righteous stick of a man who reforms and is made human by the play which he directs. Gutmann is not convincing as the man who used to kiss the portrait of his wife a thousand times before he went to bed, and declared: "I'm not a convict. I don't sin"--nor is he as the man who has an adulterous affair with a pretty convict...
...paradox is striking: voters are demanding in their leaders the personal virtues that they decreasingly demand of themselves. The trend is not confined to matters of sex and family. There's money too. The public has worked itself into a righteous frenzy over Congressmen overdrawing checks at the (private -- no taxpayer money involved) House bank. This, while the American public, without any discernible protest, annually overdraws its national account by $400 billion a year, which amounts to the average family of four borrowing over $6,000 from its children to pay for its current indulgences. There is a word...
...York Jewish community has shown itself to be a voting group with a very disturbing racial agenda. As they attempt cloak their intolerance in self-righteous outrage at persecution against Jews, they display their own bigotry in its full ugly colors...