Word: righteousness
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...theses are so likely to unite U.S. editors and publishers in righteous fervor as the notion that, justice being the public's business, the press has a right to exercise its constitutional freedom in covering court trials...
...itself-violated Lucrèce theme sounds louder chords, as the pure lady bids the rake kill himself only for him to be killed in a duel, as the righteous judge rejects the wife he thinks was raped and she takes poison, rejecting life itself, Giraudoux's artificial story remains scrupulously behind glass. But gusts of realistic rain or melodramatic sleet from time to time beat against it. Giraudoux cleverly lets his characters remark how tragedy is jostling farce, or drama is encroaching on comedy. But the play, as it plunges over rapids in which both men and women...
...someone could shake the long-held rationale of the Dutch Reformed hierarchy, South Africa's stubborn men might at long last be shaken in their self-righteous faith in apartheid itself...
Branch suggested that the civil-righteous Post might provide a better soapbox. Post Publisher Dorothy Schiff was delighted with the idea, agreed to pay Robinson $150 a week (which Jackie splits with Branch, who writes the column after Robinson dictates the story line...
...Navy plane dropping flares near a Soviet tanker in the Pacific, a London hint that sending Russian scientists into British laboratories calls for reciprocity, a U.N. committee vote calling on Communist North Korea to allow free elections for unifying the country-cause Communist hands to be raised in righteous protest against "violation of the Camp David spirit." Recently the Soviet press has been unexpectedly publishing the full text of speeches by Dean Acheson and Christian Herter. Finally it drew its conclusion: neither of these men is in tune with Camp David...