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...corps as a whole-are becoming increasingly cynical about the honor code and system. Part of the reason is the code's extreme rigidity. Part is the growing feeling among some cadets that their fellow students on the Honor Committee are as sternly self-righteous-and occasionally as sadistic-as a Puritan elder in early Massachusetts. Says a high Pentagon official: "We have to moderate their enthusiasm to be inquisitors...
...nondemonstration is the last straw. He concludes that est is "utter and complete bullshit." Ron says he just hasn't got it yet. "Got it?" says the man. "The only thing I got so far is hemorrhoids." After thunderous applause, Ron calls the man "a self-righteous s.o.b...
...intellectual and bad ("Understanding is the booby prize in life"); "get" is experiential and good. "Try" is bad. You either do it or you don't. A woman rises to defend her secretary, who "tries" hard at some jobs and sometimes fails. "You're a self-righteous bitch!" Ron screams. She collapses in tears; Ron says she is patronizing the secretary by approving her failures. A man rises to offer sympathy to the woman. "Don't help her!" Ron yells. "Help," we learn, is another "crap" word. Helping people keeps them infantile and teaches them to play...
...inappropriate in a newspaper and community which pride themselves on rationality and a strong sense of justice. The purpose of this piece is to lay the facts on the table so that the issues can be discussed in an atmosphere of reason, rather than one reminiscent of a self-righteous witch hunt...
...evasiveness on the part of Woodward and Bernstein in refusing to identify Deep Throat smacks of self-righteous hypocrisy. If the public has a right to know about governmental corruption and conversations with portraits on the wall, then the public has a right to know who supplied much of the information and for what reasons...