Word: righteous
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...punk; she can be a little country and even a tiny bit hip-hop. In fact, she has transformed herself into a flesh-and-blood icon, one that represents a blithe, unconquerable self-reliance: she has released 15 albums over her 10-year career, all on her own label, Righteous Babe Records, based in Buffalo. Her most popular album, Dilate (1996), sold more than 500,000 copies. Her new CD, the double album Revelling/Reckoning, is her most ambitious, most accomplished work yet, melding folk, jazz, funk and rock into music that's as elemental and unpredictable as the weather...
...Harvard wants to cement a reputation as the Nike of the Ivy League, it need only continue on its present self-righteous path. Last time I checked, Harvard was a nonprofit educational institution. Where is the leadership...
...afraid Ms. Gordimer just doesn't get it. Her hilariously self-righteous response - which reads like the sort of pretentious literary description that the book would get in Cliff Notes - shows that her own attitudes are as anachronistic as the idea of the noble savage. "The black servant takes full responsibility for the couple," she writes, "sheltering them among his own people; even if students miss the irony of the reversal of dependence - white now dependent on black - this act of non-racial human feeling and tolerance is glaringly evident...
...that it’s clear our troops will not be diddling about the scenic foothills of Macedonia, keeping the peace or what have you, and that peacekeeping in general will probably receive short shrift in the next few years, the enlightened section of humanity is getting that righteous floored-huffy look again...
...bright with anticipation, his manner one of assurance. I knew him pretty well, and later when I learned the whole story of the Bay of Pigs I could see how the plan would capture his imagination. It was everything the Kennedys were about; the terrible swift sword delivered with righteous fervor against a contemptible foe. And it was in the cause of freedom - and the greater glory of the Kennedys. Magnificent, macho, melodramatic...