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Jean-Baptiste decides he would rather be wrong than self-righteous. He dabbles in sensuality ("A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers"). But this leads to remorse, especially when one girl whom he desires jumps into the river and he does nothing to save her life. Diabolical and cowardly in his own eyes, Jean-Baptiste becomes publicly penitent. But, "You see, it is not enough to accuse yourself in order to clear yourself...
...greatest vocal adversary of the PTA and the other opposition groups is the voluble Fitzgerald. The Committee-man alternately adopts a tone of righteous innocence or angry impoliteness, with the latter being more frequent. He at one meeting called Shaplin a "big bum," and has persistently complained that the Dean has "impugned all our motives." On another occasion, Fitzgerald had CRIMSON photographers ejected from a committee meeting. He insists that, examinations or not, Cambridge residents should be given preference for teaching positions. With just as much rigor, he opposes the merit system, claiming that it is the "greatest fraud ever...
...which does not countenance such tomfoolery. Only when art leads to a modification or intensification of sensibility is it distinct from Eliot's "superior amusement," or even more degrading, a virtue. Some people seem still to believe in Puritan fashion that reading the good book is in itself righteous...
...outlining this concept, the President has enunciated a number of unusually sound criteria for American international action--for example, he emphasized that America must not be self-righteous, must not attempt to form "any artificial imitation" of American institutions on other peoples. Even more striking was his greeting to the peoples of Russia, in which he wished them a happy softening of purpose in the most moral of possible terms...
...those alcoholics," says Ann, "who had to go to the end of the line." As Ed settled into the role of alcoholic, Ann played the alcoholic's wife: "I bathed myself in pity. I nagged. I turned the children against him. I was extremely self-righteous. I was convinced that Ed was doing this to me deliberately." Fired from his job, Ed threw a monumental drunk one Christmas season, came to in January and called Alcoholics Anonymous. Paradoxically, that was when Ann's troubles really began. Where she had formerly lost her husband to the neighborhood...