Word: righteously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...undergraduate journalist fulminating on a newly-discovered injustice. It was not even a self-righteous young instructor writing to a pinko-political weekly about his just deserts. It was Dr. William Allan Neilson, President of Smith College. Dr. Neilson is also President of the Modern Language Association of America; he was addressing his fellow-scholars in that body where they sat convened in Manhattan. He was discussing a feature of a report lately published by the American Association of University Professors, against whom he said he "bore a grudge" for their unwillingness to share the burden of faculty dismissals...
This month's Advocate presents its wares in a typographically much more appealing fashion, especially in the departments of editorials and book reviews. The editorials in the Advocate have always had something to present other in the way of suave innuendo or of righteous exaggeration, and the book reviews were usually competent, but not clever, but one suspects that the unbroken columns of the editorial pages and the unbelievably microscopic print of the reviews presented too little attraction to the eye to tempt the reader from skipping. In the current issue, however, the editorials and reviews are made unusually attractive...
Every word of the extensive title is draught with relevant symbolism. Sodium obviously is to be taken as representative of activity righteous, of course, Salt implies well seasoned matter. The stability of the benzene nucleus is well known to chemists, as are the cleansing properties of the napthols. Then disulphonic acid is suggestive of fiery rebuke to iniquitous actions. However, in the abridged forms, proposed by the Herald, much of this significance is lost. Only the complete title does itself justice; and only the complete title attains to a sonorous dignity. This objection is not vital, but years of experience...
...they say, is mere animal nature. A school of psychology, which regards all human behavior as mechanistic, gives them substantial backing. Then Freud, with his theory of the evils of suppressed desires, confirms their conviction that one can do no wrong if he follows his instincts. A sort of righteous zeal, therefore, inspires the modern crusade to let truth have its way and show things as they really...
...hatred is abroad everywhere, the most sterile of all passions. ... Do not let us add to it by separating the classes of citizens. Let women vote in their strength, but let their ruling purpose be to establish righteous government among a free people, of whom they now form a large part...