Word: righteouseness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many women these days--Claudia Dreifus, Elizabeth Gould Davis--are obsessed with the need for righteous feminist indignation not to mention that it seems to sell well. So they diligently lace their writing with feminine wrath. But Tucker doesn't use sex as a ploy to draw attention to the book. In this way The Woman's Eye is a refreshing contrast to the usual collection of photographs. There are no glamor portraits, sex symbols or Earth Mothers ("Nude women have floated in still ponds, been massaged by rushing waters, prayed at the base of phallic trees, and danced...
...Nickel Mountain comes as something of a surprise. But it's not as if the corpse of the boy who cried wolf were just found amidst self-righteous moralmongering. The novel's appearance is more triumphant, as if the boy, after playing his little joke once too often, were to return home one day bruised and bloody with the dead wolf's skin slung over his shoulder. Nickel Mountain has just that simple tone of life-enhancing experience...
...people were skeptics before Watergate, but they didn't start acting like evangelists until Watergate. Watergate made righteousness fashionable--the country's soul needed saving. But righteousness thwarted turns to wrath. And righteous wrath obstructed creates a pressure to purge. The Exorcist is the picture of a purge. It is bursting with nihilistic aggression. Blasphemy is the whole of little Regan...
Investigations now being pursued may yet link the Nixon Ad ministration to more classic kinds of corruption. But the transgressions of Watergate and the Nixon palace guard turn more on amorality than immorality and are all the more pernicious for that. These were power-intoxicated, self-righteous men, sure that their purposes justified their wrongdoing, insisting that they were not themselves profiting financially, though they were in fact serving their ambitions in the process and showing themselves ready to subvert government and justice when it suited them. Corruption once wore a plainer face...
...chosen Vice President of the U.S. This would seem to be one of those times similar to England in 1876, when Gladstone believed: "Good ends can rarely be attained in politics without passion, and there is now, for the first time for a good many years, a righteous passion." The message is not the despairing They All Do It, but the fighting cry that too many...