Word: righteouseness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wore! First handed by the Warrior Achilles-in deference to a Christian Character, Pagan Emblems removed-to Reagan the Pure of the Western Coast; it had passed thence to Hayakawa, the Bold. Now, triple tempted and tested on the Forges at Berkeley, it had descended to B-wen, the Righteous...
...also questions the validity of the Faculty's action against ROTC and says that, despite the "extremely unrepresentative impression given by a few self- righteous zealots," most Harvard students are "thoughtful and concerned individuals" who "care deeply and sensibly about Harvard...
...common strategy in defense of things as they are has become plain. Administrators remain unresponsive to protest against their unlawful conduct until such time as frustration drives the protesters into some trivial "disorder." Then the righteous, with tears in their eyes, call in the head-beaters to preserve law and order and academic freedom...
...tone of such far-out rightists is both ominous and self-righteous, like that of the "skinheads," a similar group of disaffected youth in Great Britain. Good Americans, suggest NYA/WSL writings, are the workers and producers in society; intellectuals are not producers, but "softeners" of those solid qualities of strength and conquest at the envisioned heart of "Western Civilization." Those who undermine this culture, NYA/WSL spokesmen feel, must be defeated by any necessary means, including violence...
...uniqueness of the present conflict in American society is that, despite the failings of many earnest evangelists of individual repentance and moral purity, the prophetic conception of the righteous remnant of a nation is sufficiently strong among religious and secular people alike to enable us to participate in the most significant reversal of national policy on moral grounds ever compassed in so relatively short a time, given the unprecedented magnitude of our goal. Never before has such a large proportion of the population of any nation become so actively involved in reversing the policy of its head of state...