Word: righteousness
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...unabashedly romantic, gently moving in its lyric flights, occasionally distracting when the onstage movements are too welded to its melodramatic moods. The acting style is sometimes reminiscent of Theda Bara and the silent films: the wildly staring eyes and clawing hands of grief, the shaking fists upraised in righteous anger. At one point, Romeo stands with roses in one hand and a human skull in the other, registering alternate hope and despair with the instantaneous reflexes of a Pavlovian...
...interpretation of the curse of Canaan . . . together with unauthorized, but widely accepted statements by [Mormon] leaders in years past, has led to the view among many Mormon adherents that birth into any race other than white is a result of inferior performance in pre-earth life, and that by righteous living dark-skinned races may again become 'white and delightsome...
...Haven's finest showed as much vigilance as Her Majesty's Royal Kenya Rifles when confronted with a jeering mob; and now President A. Whitney Griswold has placed the entire student body on probation. Although designed to conciliate righteous New Haven residents, such repression seems especially grave for spring disturbances. After all, the natives are bound to get restless now and then...
...infected with suspicion. Nemeth cannot be sure that the right head has fallen. An antiparty joke seals the fate of the old party fighter, and Nemeth sends his best friend to jail because his office accounts do not balance. Righteous as Robespierre. Nemeth finally convinces himself that his Russian-born mistress is really a White Russian and denounces her. The girl commits suicide, and for a moment-but a moment only-Comrade Nemeth sees himself for the monster he has become...
...roar of self-righteous voices raised against the "horrors" going on in Cuba is being heard from one end to the other of the country. This outcry would have more validity if a similar outcry had reverberated for the past six years when the horrible torturing of people by the "government" of the unspeakable Batista, for no reason even rationalized, except to keep a dictator in power, was the order...