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...questioned the validity of the Faculty's action against ROTC and said that, despite the "extremely unrepresentative impression given by a few self-righteous zealots," most Harvard students are "thoughtful and concerned individuals" who "care deeply and sensibly about Harvard...
...approval of a minor amendment. Congressional Democrats, claiming that they already have cut $5.6 billion from Nixon's requests, rate education as an item of top national priority and prefer that the Administration trim somewhere else in the fight against inflation. Their argument is a shade too righteous, since $600 million of the education money is for aid to schools where large numbers of Government workers strain local facilities. These schools are not always among the most needy...
...racked the Old World, the New seems to them refreshingly free of sustained class and sectional strife. They feel that the pluralism of American life has blurred ideological divisions between rich and poor, between agrarians and urbanites. They are friendly to the realistic practicing politician and denigrate the self-righteous crusading reformer...
Perhaps the greatest violence of Soldier Blue is done offscreen-to Director Nelson's image. Five years ago, a righteous Hollywood organization entitled Operation Moral Upgrade awarded him a halo-shaped pin for his work on Lilies of the Field, which featured Sidney Poitier and a gaggle of fluttering nuns. "Apparently," Nelson says, "Mrs. Van New Kirk, the head of the group, recently saw an article about this film. I got a horrible letter drumming me out of the corps. I am no longer an angel. I consider it an honor...
xMAMMON, God of Riches, following Dryden's Eye and sighting the bright gold Lettering of the Shield, rushed as if called by a Secret Code to the Side of the Righteous...