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Jesse Helms is the New Right's righteous warrior, and his battle is nigh...
...Beirut, in which about 300 were killed. It would be unreasonable to expect official contrition. But Israel in the past has managed to convey more sorrow than anger when it wielded its terrible swift sword. Now there seems to be only anger, and it is too often shrill, self-righteous and even a bit frightening-more so to those who love Israel than to those who hate...
...Soviet perception of the Minuteman debate, at least as expressed by official spokesmen in a series of interviews in Moscow, is a mixture of righteous indignation, countercharges and carefully reasoned assurances. "These wild scenarios by American armchair strategists breed suspicion and paranoia and serve to justify the arms race," says Georgi Arbatov, the director of the Institute for the Study of the U.S.A. and Canada and a member of the Communist Party Central Committee...
...quickly for a number of unconvincing reasons. He notes the religious roots of the symbolism of the Stamp Act protestors, then trivializes it because the religious influence actually suggests "rites older than those of American Calvinism." Or he notes than non-importation of British goods developed into "a righteous, almost religious issue that recalls the politics of the Puritans," but this time he translates the issue into a "crisis of conscience regarding the propriety of crowd behavior." Shaw would have been better off had he simply acknowledged the crucial importance of the Puritan tradition in colonial thought. Several...
...righteous people in early America who accused helpless women of being witches have something in common with the modern Moral Majority-the incredible arrogance that makes them assume they have the right to impose their notions of morality and immorality upon the lives of others...