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...suggest that you publish Monday's strip, if only to inform Crimson readers of the banality of your prudery. Your misguidedly self-righteous concern over a nebulous offense is no more than a priggish display of editorial hubris. Ralph Vetters '85 Harry Browne...
...TENDS TO BE suspicious of children's poetry books simply because they seem a little self-righteous. Their very existence implies ignorance of boorishness on the part of the reader, as if to say, "You don't realize the child's talent, but here is overwhelming evidence to throw in your face. " The impulse is to brace oneself for the challenge prepare to read the most astonishing and brilliant verse ever written by a child...
Proponents of fundamentalist schools have forgotten one of the basic teachings of the Bible, which is that the Christian is to respect and obey the government. In taking an arrogant, self-righteous position, the supporters of Christian schools not only reproach the Bible, but insult those who work in the public schools. The public system does work, but it works better when we stay to build rather than when we desert to experiment...
...second half of the film is predictably somewhat less sharp. The numerous recollections of Clouseau are linked together by French television reporter Marie Jouvet (Joanna Lumley); her self-righteous journalistic fury at being "warned off" the Clouseau case by the detective's enemies was enough to make this reviewer reconsider his career goals. But the people Jouvet interviews en route to researching Clouseau's life generally hold their own, and Clouseau's doddering father (Richard Mulligan), a veteran wine grower who's sampled a little too much of his produce, is hysterical...
...special two-hour final episode of M*A*S*H marks not only the end of the series' wartime hostilities, played out on a sound stage on the Century City lot, but the end of the eleven-year-old, 250-episode CBS television show. Sometimes preachy and self-righteous, but always funny, the program was that rare TV treat, a situation comedy with situations and comedy. At a M*A*S*H bash to say goodbye, the show's creators and stars were feted with a black-tie dinner in West Hollywood by CBS and the series...