Word: righteouseness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brilliantly acted thriller (TIME, Dec. 5), Z purports to give a picture of contemporary Greece by focusing on a right-wing conspiracy to kill a leftist politician. At the bottom of this plot are revealed all the elements that are bound to rouse the liberal Western conscience: self-righteous military men, violence-loving fascists and broad hints of American complicity...
...Righteous: genuine and right ("That's a righteous man, that Bill Kunstler...
...speaks for the director, and he speaks a series of banal platitudes that only the Needham P. T. A. could find palatable. Lines like "Some of these kids just want to turn the world upside down, others just want to retreat from it." He looks so sincere and self-righteous, as if he were God himself speaking from the rostrum of the high school auditorium. Later, when he finds out his son is dealing, he pats him on the cheek, and then climbs down the stairs to call the police. The son gets off. Illegal search and seizure. That...
...drugs as no other "cure" can, and the witness of their followers, like the testimony at faith-healing tent meetings, is filled with tales of needle-scarred young lives healed by Jesus. But in contrast with many conventional fundamentalists, their approach is open and joyful, notably lacking in self-righteous stiffness. The prevailing attitude is ecumenical. Many come from Roman Catholic or Jewish backgrounds...
...position where they unashamedly work to stifle dissent among their own members- that is to say, they have become less and less participatory, rather, more and more coercive, increasingly disdaining the rights of minorities within or without, and again like extreme rightist groups of other ages, advancing in righteous indignation, have now turned increasingly to violence and force. Ours has been a troubled situation...