Word: righteouseness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...news with a close approximation of equanimity. Porter had drifted away from Judaism long before, due to "laziness" during junior high school toward Orthodox rituals, and made a conscientious breakaway in high school. The new religion had all the virtues of tepid liberalism, without the hungry search for righteous causes so dismally pursued over the past decade by many students and suburbanites. Porter was attracted by the religion's calls for men to "abolish extreme wealth and extreme poverty," "to choose an international language to be used along with the mother tongue," and to grant women "equal opportunities, rights...
...Hugh Sidey's "Sadness of America" [April 30] sums it up pretty well, but what has infuriated me is the President's and his unassailably righteous untouchables' evident belief in the unfathomable stupidity of the average American...
...wake of the "new politics" amateurs like Wilfrid Sheed, former film critic for Esquire, are beginning to write a new brand of political fiction. People Will Always Be Kind is a good example of how this new type fails: like the "new politics" itself, the book is unorganized, self-righteous and too self-consciously concerned with style...
FEMINISM. Not just the 'same rights' as men; 'as in political and economic status'; which was made obvious in 1949 with the publication of The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir. No, more than anything else the righteous and intrinsic concern of teminism appears to me to be the liberation of one's psychology, and one's self-definition, from the essentially incorrect and oppressive definition of some other...
...Such self-righteous, moral indignation -methinks the masses doth protest too much...