Word: righteouseness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Righteous Anger...
...wage and price freeze has done anything for the American character, it has unleashed a streak of latent vigilantism. Righteous consumers are scouring supermarkets, restaurants and even football stadiums for evidence of violations of the freeze...
...Cain than Abel. Yet it is closer to a more entertaining tradition-the literary monster made real because he has been made so human. Variously and happily, Grendel suggests Caliban, grumping around Prospero's island like the first exploited colonial, Milton's Lucifer, that voluble, self-righteous rebel simmering eternally on a lake of fire, even King Kong on the Empire State Building, bemusedly plucking at those 30-cal. holes in his furry chest...
...artifacts and personal history. It is as if the roll of film in a home movie had been doubly and triply exposed. Willy is not un like an Uncle Sam suffering from advanced arterial sclerosis - a symbol of a nation that sometimes seems to have gone from a vigorous, righteous innocence to a befuddled old age in less than 100 years...
...just "righteous anger" but anger of any kind has also become the accepted proof of moral conviction. It is the way we act out certainty when we do not really feel it. As other emotions become less sure, less confident, anger amalgamates with them. Even love, itself, can become a junior partner. What fierce, cannibalistic love scenes we stage in films and even in private lives! Such Who's Afraid of Virginia foolishness! Such ripping and tearing! Such savage, winner-takes-all grappling! The fistfights in Five Easy Pieces seem like friendly interludes of token mayhem compared with...