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...editorial's dismissal of the notion that Black-Jewish tensions are serious problem right now, on campus and elsewhere. The Crimson, by so vehemently denying that there is a deeper problem, seems determined, as in the earlier Leonard Jeffries affair, to present only one side of the situation: righteous Jews crusading against anti-Semitic Blacks...
...producing beef that include plumping animals with hormones and stuffing them with "enough grain to feed hundreds of millions of people." Although he did not personally visit a ranch or a meat-packing plant, his stomach-churning descriptions of how cattle are treated from birth to slaughter brim with righteous indignation. (A reformed carnivore, Rifkin says he swore off beef 15 years ago after taking three bites of a revolting blue-gray hamburger, then throwing the rest away...
Beauty is suspect these days. Any movie that luxuriates in decor and landscape will be seen to dawdle (Aren't these the passages we all skipped over in the novels our English teachers demanded we read?). A pretty face in a pretty picture stirs all sorts of righteous suspicions about artists who wallow in nostalgia for the glamorous artifacts of a despotic past...
ARTICLE 99. Noble doctors have to break the rules at a veterans' hospital that is threatened by low funding and pompous bureaucracy. A vigorous cast, led by Ray Liotta and Kiefer Sutherland, pushes all the proper buttons for righteous melodrama. It's just that this old Hollywood machine doesn't work anymore...
...Marseillaise, whose music once inspired the men of the Midi to boot out invading Prussians, march on Paris -- whistling the tune as they went -- depose the King and fire the imagination of all Europe. That was 200 years ago. Today the song's robust words, which bristle with righteous anger at la tyrannie and enjoin the children of revolutionary France to "drench our fields" with the "tainted blood" of the enemy, are under siege by those who feel the piece smacks of political incorrectness...