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...Communists were a folk-singing choir who loved picnics, baseball and Joseph Stalin, roughly in that order. Paul Isaacson (Mandy Patinkin) was the party's star tummler, strutting as vivaciously on Death Row as he would have on the Borscht Belt. And Rochelle (Lindsay Grouse) was a righteous, steel-rimmed Yiddish mama...
...principal figures in the Carter campaign and White House were no more sure of how they would have reacted. "It would sound precious and self-righteous to say I would have turned them down," said former Press Secretary Jody Powell, "so I'm not going to say it. I think and hope that I would have...
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...