Word: righteousness
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Before he pulls the trigger, Kilvinsky tells Roy that he believes policemen are "the new centurions, holding the line against the barbarians." The film is in no way at odds with such an elaborate, self-righteous view of the constabulary. None of these centurions are on the take, none corrupted or vicious or even cynical. To be sure, Roy's wife leaves him and he hits the bottle for a while, but he, like the other cops, is portrayed as a lonely battler against iniquity, mostly unloved and generally misunderstood...
...effectively restricts the ability of the press to expose, investigate and analyze. Indeed, the Supreme Court's decision must come as welcome relief to shysters who know the chances are 50-50 they can buy off the police, but who become queasy under the curious eye of a self-righteous, snooping reporter...
EVEN THE MOVIES say "War is hell". What the movies rarely tell us is that war is ugly. Surely, we all understand, at least abstractly, the ethical ambivalence involved in ending life for the sake of the living. Still, for generations of Americans raised on hazy memories of "righteous" wars from the War of Independence down to World War II, these incidentals are trivial stacked against the glory of our supposed war-time causes. Suffering merely humbles the victor, makes his triumph more noble, more admirable. It entitles him to his booty. Political and social questions aside, this points...
...trying to elect some self-righteous dictator who scorns any change or ideas different from his own. That is what we are trying to replace...
After much travail and travel (by bus) I arrived in Cambridge, passed thru the sacred gate. (Open ye the gate that the righteous nation, etc.) into the old yard. Incidentally--I am an unworthy member of the famous class of 1910. The old yard did look familiar. My old room in Hollis I was locked. This was on Wednesday, June 14. All the dormitories seemed to be locked so the so called "rest rooms" were unavailable. For an octogenarian, this was a problem...