Word: righteousness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...staged two big names, big money concerts and the score is one-all. The first point, for good rock 'n' roll and fine, upbeat performance, was won by the Mamas and the Papas; the second was painfully lost to the forces of commercialism and bad taste by the Righteous Brothers...
...invented a name for the Mamas' and the Papas' sound, which is just as well, since no other group could imitate and cash in on it anyway. The Righteous Brothers, on the other hand, are credited with founding a "school of rock 'n' roll, blue-eyed soul." You have to sit up close to verify that Bill Medley and Bobby Hatfield do indeed have blue eyes, but you could have sat anyplace in the Back Bay Theatre and figured out that the Righteous Brothers have about as much soul as Laurence Welk. And this is something not to be realized...
...thief," we are told, and we shouldn't be too comfortable about the situation. At the play's end true love is rewarded, and the greed, lechery and feigning of feeling which have been smirked at as the keystones of Congreve's society are taken almost seriously and punished. Righteous sons rebuke their fathers and everybody does a curtain frug...
...that is precisely what Ardrey does say. He says many other things equally indigestible and undemonstrable: that the lower animals have as sophisticated a morality as man and can practice the principle of the greatest good for the greatest number; that victory in the jungle goes to the righteous rather than to the strong (the territorial defender almost without exception vanquishes the attacker); that the boxer obsessively dabbing at his nose may be doing so in an unconscious effort to avoid killing his opponent...
Some churches make no secret of their desire to get rid of a civil-righteous pastor-and when congregational policy allows it, they sometimes do so. In the Boston suburb of Newton, the Rev. Frank Weiskel of the First Congregational Church was dismissed soon after he and a visiting Negro minister sang We Shall Overcome from the pulpit. Last February, the Rev. William Youngdahl of Omaha's Augustana Lutheran Church was forced to resign his charge after congregants protested his involvement in local civil rights work. And in Evanston, Ill., the Rev. Emory G. Davis this month left...