Word: righteousness
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...language as plain as a silo on the skyline, Kefauver told a farmer-dominated audience of 5,000 that the Eisenhower-Benson farm program has been "one big flop from beginning to end." Stevenson then took over to charge Ike and the G.O.P. with "callous political perfidy," "self-righteous hypocrisy," "broken promises," and "duplicity" in dealing with the farm problem. Ike, he said, has been guilty of "transparent hypocrisy" or "just doesn't know what's going...
Well Regimented. Last month the "smug, righteous" day people, as Shepherd calls them, closed ranks: WOR declared Shepherd "noncommercial" and sacked him, thus setting off a clangor of protest heard halfway across the land. Next day the chain gave him a week's reprieve. Then Shepherd tried a hard-sell on the first commercial product that popped into mind, Sweetheart Soap (which had never been a WOR sponsor). He was abruptly cut off the air and fired again. Announced WOR: "We cannot permit such poor judgment to continue uncontrolled." Just as abruptly, WOR ate its words. Sweetheart Soap rewarded...
...with interest that I read of the proposed congressional investigation of the collision of two foreign-flag vessels outside U.S. territorial waters [;Aug 6]. If one is to project the righteous trumpetings of Representative Bonner on the subject of protecting the American traveler abroad, will the death of a U.S. citizen in a train wreck in Buenos Aires necessitate a congressional investigation of the Argentine State Railways...
...Mississippi's Governor James Plemon Coleman. Husky, affable Governor Coleman, who learned how to handle extremists in his home state, kept his head when the thunder began to rumble at Chicago. Under his steadying hand, Platform Committee Southerners sat silent, although glum, through a parade of outspokenly civil-righteous witnesses, e.g., A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, who demanded that "the Democratic Party must declare that it is not in favor of thwarting a decision of the Supreme Court...
...this kind of dramatic handicap bothers Shaw the way an out-of-tune piano would have hurt Beethoven. What the playwright loses in motion and physical life he more than makes up for in intellectual content. Indeed, making Joan proud, self-righteous, and a military crusader adds intellectual spice to such questions as "Was she really guilty?" and "Would we burn her today?" It also leads up to the nationalism, monarchism, and Protestantism that Joan purportedly represents, and to some fine razzle-dazzle Shavian dialogue on these topics. In many ways the scenes in which these questions are most thoroughly...