Word: righteouseness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first steps in a courtship: "Every time I've opened my mouth, assumed my battle stance, I was trying in effect to say I love you, African--African woman...If my enemies, your enemies, prove stronger at least I want them to know that they have made one righteous African man extremely angry. And that they have strained the patience of a righteous and loyal people to the utmost...
...family, Jackson learned to hunt, fish, and read Nature. He became the "scourge of the woods, the predatory man." Away from the consumptive maelstrom of the inner city, he discovered a community of blacks which although as poor as that in Chicago had managed to remain "a loyal and righteous people." Most importantly, Jackson, a man who was to spend half of his life in prison or on the run and die a month before his thirtieth birthday, discovered an inner peace in Harrisburg, tapped, for the first time and in its purest form the last, the strength and gentleness...
...neutrality." One can imagine what sanctimonious rage might flow from Stockholm were the Nobel Prize awarded to, say, a Greek or Spanish writer, and his respective government responded to the honors a la the Kremlin's response to Solzhenitsyn. One hopes that, even in Sweden, enough righteous anger will be generated to force a more honest policy toward Russia's greatest living literary figure...
...history of the cold war (see story opposite). To anyone old enough to recall the dark presence of untempered Stalinism in Eastern Europe, Mindszenty was, and is, a stirring, heroic, tragic figure. To many people, he remains a symbol of the ultimate incompatibility of Communism and Christianity, of the righteous intransigence of a man of God before godless men. Others would acknowledge his courage and tenacity but add that Mindszenty is also a stiff-necked, ancien regime autocrat, out of step with the present mood of the church he has sought to serve. Still others might say, with some justice...
...Muller learned to hit back-a course of action facilitated by his increasing size and bulk. To hear him tell his adventures, he is a biblical avenger with a charmed life. Armed punks beg for mercy after a dose of his righteous fists. During World War II, he cold-cocks a Navy boxing champion with one punch. Japanese machine-gun bullets buzz between his legs as comrades fall around him. Nearly 15 years later, Muller's luck even holds when he stops a thief's bullet with his skull...