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...several years. We've tried to make clear that people are entitled to have any opinions they want," Pusey said. But "certain actions that interfere with the actions of other people are totally unacceptable." He said that Harvard students "ought to be ashamed to be numbered among these self-righteous zealots...
Pusey's choice of words seemed strange because he gives the impression of having a gentle demeanor. To hear him talking about "self-righteous zealots" and "starry-eyed radicals" seemed like language incongruent with the man himself. His judgment that one per cent of the undergraduates are responsible for most of the student demonstrations, and that the CRR might be able to weed them out, was reminiscent of the Joe McCarthy-type thinking against which Pusey fought so hard...
When I got back to the reception center, I sat, dozed, talked, and ate a cheese sandwich until 8 a.m., when I got a ride to Frank's, where I was staying. As I crawled into my sleeping bag I felt good, and a bit self-righteous. Then I remembered that Tinsley Bryant was still dead...
...ashamedly supposed to. A modestly budgeted film without a name star, The Lawyer has magnificent pretensions. It seeks to analyze the dilemma of freedom of the press v. a defendant's pretrial rights, probe the personality of an ambitious young trial lawyer and lay bare the smug, self-righteous rural soul (which suffers from overexposure anyway). The result is a demolition derby that threatens to wreck everyone in sight...
Jackson warned the crowd not to feel self-righteous in their attempts to avoid cooperation with the system. "You are born reared and living in the system," he said. "When you ride in a G. M. [General Motors] car you participate in the system...