Word: righteouseness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pastime. There are those who see Brown as a humorless, intellectual fanatic who first tried submerging himself in the Roman Catholic Church and then, with equally uncritical fervor, opted for the ego and power trip of politics. Others speculate that his drive is pure Freud, the compulsive, humorless, self-righteous attempt of a quiet young man to surpass the booming, back-slapping old pol who happened to be his father. To his family and friends, Brown is simply a shy, intelligent man with "a missionary spirit...
...supporting roles are generally well-handled--with one glaring exception. The character of Paul Verrall, as written, is fairly unappealing--self-righteous and stuffy--but Jerry Colker succeeds in making him unbearably obnoxious. His face is frozen into an expression of supreme smugness, broken occasionally by a smile of self-satisfaction. He delivers his lines stiffly and in such patronizing tones that one wonders why Billie doesn't slap him instead of kissing him--or at least exclaim, as Brock does at one point, "Don't give me them Harvard College expressions on your face...
More than a century ago, Boston was a sternly self-righteous center of abolitionist sentiment, while Montgomery, Ala., was the capital of the Confederacy. After World War II, Bostonians played a major role in carrying the crusade for civil rights to the South, and Montgomery remained one of the obdurate centers of resistance...
Hogan followed his previous attack on Nixon with another assault. When Nixon and his aides discussed Watergate Burglar E. Howard Hunt's demands for money in the celebrated March 21, 1973, White House conversation, Hogan protested: "The President didn't, in righteous indignation, rise up and say, 'Get out of here. You are in the office of the President of the United States. How can you talk about blackmail and bribery and keeping witnesses silent?' . . . And then throw them out of his office and pick up the phone and call the Department of Justice and tell them there is obstruction...
Peachum, a greedy and self-righteous rascal, and his alcholic wife (Margo Martindale) want better for their son-in-law than an infamous criminal. With little virtue of their own of which to boast, they bribe one of Mac's whores, Jenny Diver (Tiina Cartmell), into betraying him to the police. Scotland Yard is led by Mac's old army buddy, the powerful Tiger-Brown (Patrick Clean), whose own daughter Lucy (Cynthia Dickason) is also married secretly to Mac. Mac is arrested twice. The women fight for his allegiance. He is saved at the very end by a royal pardon...