Word: righteouseness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...majority party was sundered. There was no real debate involved, for all the claims that it would be "the clearest choice in this century." The President scarcely campaigned at all, and the Democratic candidate, entangled in his early mistakes and misunderstandings, fell into a rhetoric of self-righteous moralism...
Others, such as former socialist Martin Diamond, professor of Political Science at Northern Illinois University, find McGovern "overly righteous...
These professors, with their hard analytical judgments and views of a world in which force must be played off against force, are naturally more suited to what Pipes called the "manipulativeness" of Nixon than McGovern's "righteous" stands. McGovern presents too great a departure from the presidential administrations that these men have studied and worked for. In many respects, he denies the assumptions that they have made their lives around. It is probably this more than anything else that prompts the annoyed resentment that these traditionally liberal scholars express...
...America where intellectuals introduced drugs as the means to a meditative experience, where honored magazines are polluted with pornography, where ministers have forgotten that Jesus never interfered with Caesar's laws, where free love has unleashed an epidemic of venereal disease, where destructive protest has been honored as righteous dissent, where the killing of unborn babies is thought a small price to pay for the pleasure of sex, where the purpose of law is forgotten and the letter of the law is worshiped like a plastic god, where tradition's moral sense is spat upon-in such...
...candidate favors the coddling of criminals, permissiveness toward drugs, loafing on welfare and the street antics of radicals. At other times, he haughtily dismisses Nixon's opponent. "McGovernism," he predicts, "will be nothing more than an obscure footnote in the pages of history." Still often patronizing and rigidly righteous, Agnew has changed more in style than in substance...