Word: righteouseness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...steel strike seems probable, but it is by no means inevitable. The apparently rigid positions on both sides are part of the bargaining ritual that enables labor and management to play their righteous, hard-nosed roles down to the deadline, even though a settlement might be reached weeks or even months earlier. Already, many executives believe that any settlement will approximate the can-industry package. Some top union officials are saying privately that they do not think that there will be a walkout. After three weeks of examining the issues with both sides, TIME Chicago Bureau Chief Champ Clark reports...
...about being where he is and who he is. And in a way, that is his strength. There is newness still about him, an abiding belief in the goodness of people that continues to rise to the surface, and even his temper emerges as a very special righteous indignation, a rare quality in the gray of Washington's current power holders. Ed Muskie, the Polish immigrant tailor's son, is a true believer. That scarecrow frame, craggy face and gravelly voice make everybody think of Abraham Lincoln, and that is of huge appeal in this aimless...
...other Rohmer stories, the protagonist is an amiably vain, self-righteous prig torn by his infatuation with two women. Adrien (Patrick Bauchau) is a dandified Paris antique dealer who decides to take a vacation from his mistress. His holiday goal at a friend's villa near St.-Tropez, he announces, is "to do and to be absolutely nothing." Unfortunately for his purposes, the villa is already occupied by a painter friend and by Haydee (Haydée Politoff), a pouty, bikini-clad young swinger who collects men much the way Adrien gathers antiquities. Her affairs with the painter...
...would only discuss two of them and ignore the others (unless, of course, questions were raised)-not because these various moral issues were unimportant but because they were usually too complex to be dealt with in a few short remarks, and that the usual alternatives, simplistic and self-righteous stances, were mostly beside the point. This statement is very different from your lead quote, "Moral issues in the Vietnamese war are beside any point...
...Reality: an Artistic Whole, fascinating, hence demobilizing. Investigations of a Citizen Above Suspicion, with its metonymical distillation of the Power Structure into the isolated (and questionable) stereotype of the "Authoritarian Personality," dismisses practical ways of dealing with that structure politically, and-like Z-it breeds in us a self-righteous self-satisfaction with our own uncommitted brand of anti-Fascism. Our passivity is transformed only to the extent of our exploitation, as we thrill freely to the perverse in all its frozen detail...