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...lost in critical rummage would be to miss the point. Irving's litany of error and folly may strike some as too righteous; but it is effective. His glaring capital letters aside, Meany reminds us that, after the nostrums of the Great Communicator, news should be more than what we did not know yesterday and are likely to forget tomorrow...
...hand, More stood as one of the most important defenders of the Catholic faith during the 16th century. On the other hand, More stood as a righteous servant to the king. Serving as Lord Councillor to Henry VIII, the staunchly Catholic More was able to remain in favor with the Crown. Not even the king's divorce from Catherine of Aragon and subsequent formation of his own Church of England fazed the ever-loyal servant...
Rushdie possesses an egotistical, self-righteous streak that has not always endeared him to his fellow Britons. He has been an articulate critic of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's economic policies. And somewhere in the process of becoming Westernized, Rushdie lost his faith. "When I was young, I was religious in quite an unthinking way," he said recently. "Now I'm not, but I am conscious of a space where...
After his death, de Sousa Mendes was recognized by the government of Israel as a "righteous gentile." In 1988, he became an honorary citizen of Israel, Wheeler said...
Wood burning in the late '80s is no more sensible or righteous than mountain climbing. There was an old gent in my town, died a couple of years back, who split and stacked huge piles of wood well past his 80th birthday. He had plenty of money and an unused oil furnace, but wood splitting felt right to him, made sense. For a time, during the trendy days of wood stoves, he was a hero. After wood stoves lost their vogue and he continued to split firewood, he was thought mildly eccentric. Then he died...