Word: righteousness
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PLAYWRIGHTS Lawrence and Lee are very careful to illustrate Thoreau not as the bearded, weary-eyed man seen on postage stamps, but as a vigorous, rebellious, self-righteous contemporary-someone to connect with on a personal level...
They offer it as a series of melodramatic cliches, seen strictly in terms of black (noble, long-suffering, righteous) and white (sadistic, loutish, bigoted). Any shred of evidence damaging to Jackson - and there is a good deal - is conveniently omitted...
...silence of civil libertarians when the TPF went into the Rabbit Inn with clubs swinging; the bizarre and absurd posturing by the Boston Globe, including an article in which veterans of the anti-war and civil rights movements explain civil disobedience is morally just only when the cause is righteous...
...into a new, and somehow less vital society, perhaps the criticism is valid. For Corry, as another Irishman, can never really condone the family's fall from a state of Gaelic grace, and his book carries with it the insistently remonstrative tone of the well-bred but confidently self-righteous priests and nuns who people it. But still, Corry recognizes that he can't speak ill of his subjects, for the cozy world of Irish-American society they abandoned has slowly ceased to exist. The green flags no longer dot the Brooklyn waterfront; Italians and Poles live there...
...York Times, able to get their "views printed in the mass media that would have ruled them out in the '50s and '60s." Access journalists have to live by more rigid rules than the fiercely "honest" radical journalists for whom, in more tumultuous times, the morality of righteous anger was enough...