Word: righteouseness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fulbright was a country boy who made it to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar,* and some of his colleagues regard him as an aloof and self-righteous man who never got over the experience. (President Truman once called him "that overeducated Oxford s.o.b.") As time went by, Fulbright grew to prefer the company of the rich and the powerful. He became a confidant of Henry Kissinger and the friend and counselor to Presidents and Kings. In the process, he lost touch with Arkansas, and last week the people of his state...
Maybe Coleman's flat pronouncement, that the self-righteous student who promises worker-student alliance has no effect in the ditches, should silence any student reviewer who has begun to criticize the man. But the self-righteous student--still anxious for such an alliance--is not satisfied. The construction workers on girders are still throwing nails at the academics below. Meanwhile, doesn't Coleman cut a suspicious figure? He plunges into the lower-class welter, frolicking in ditches and finding new muscles in his back (and also finding himself), keeping a semi-stupid diary and publishing Blue-Collar Journal, warning...
Coleman's declaration of opposition between workers and students suddenly seems less a studied position than a personal effort to justify his own small-minded excursion. The man's search for his lost half prompts him to rope off the blue-collar world, to preserve it from self-righteous student-socialists, to leave it for bankers and college presidents to find their submerged forgotten selves...
...grows. It is all very well to be down on the sanctimonious likes of John Foster Dulles, J. Edgar Hoover and Francis Cardinal Spellman (his top three detestees). But Douglas, the longest-sitting Justice in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court (1939 through the present), has grown disconcertingly righteous about his lifelong anti-Establishment views...
...Gilman, the knowledge that he will be running against Dow in November must surely be a significant factor in his calculations. Dow will take a very strong and very righteous pro-impeachment stance, and will no doubt tie Gilman as closely as he can to Nixon. And as the special House elections of the past few weeks indicate, that strategy could very well be successful...