Word: righteouseness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Righteous Power. Basically, Andelin preaches conservative Christian doctrine on the need for wives to submit to husbands. She also teaches a kind of psychic judo for women to use on their mates: give in to get what you want, because submissiveness will bring "a strange but righteous power over your...
...general-election record was poor (one win and three losses to Harold Wilson's Labor!tes). He also had a largely well-deserved reputation for refusing to take anyone's counsel but his own, as well as an unendearing public image as a prickly, self-righteous schoolmaster. Paradoxically, some of the handicaps that led to his downfall had helped keep him in power. After ten years of Heath's lofty exercise of party leadership, the Conservatives were left without anyone of even vaguely comparable experience or stature to turn to. In a recent pro-Heath editorial...
There was a bit of the pathetic patchwork monster about Wollstonecraft herself. Born into a graspy family of weaver-merchants who for several generations had been up and down the economic ladder, she had to pick up her education and her righteous indignation wherever she could find them. Appalled by the strictures of marriage, she attempted to support herself as a governess, then as the head of her own small school. But her temperament, says Biographer Tomalin, "was geared to drama, violent emotion and struggle" without nuance, irony or humor. She was a person who had to dominate people...
...routines and court battles, but manages to present them with continuity. The bits themselves, carefully edited, represent the best of Lenny Bruce and capture his change in mood and brand of humor--as arrests persisted, Lenny's character became increasingly raffish, his voice increasingly strident and self-righteous, until he was trying to frighten his audience more than amuse...
...most celebrated of the defendants was Lionel Cruse, head of the 155-year-old firm of Cruse et Fils Freres. When the scandal broke in June 1973, it was quickly dubbed the "Winegate" affair by French papers. Protesting his innocence, Cruse shot back in righteous anger: "You'll see, I'll be the Nixon of Bordeaux." That prediction turned out to be more accurate than he could have possibly wished. Last week, in a criminal court, Cruse, his cousin Yvan, a freewheeling wine broker named Pierre Bert and 15 lesser merchants were on trial, charged with falsifying labels...