Word: righteousness
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...Broadway, the heroine's controversial documentary was an antiwar film. In the Hollywood version, she sponsors a movie preaching academic freedom. As the scripters handle it, this glib switch-no doubt an expedient one-leaves the issue so vaguely generalized that, for all the picture's righteous pounding, it rings pretty hollow...
...There must have been a moment in China when it became fully apparent that the West had had it. One day last week such a moment came in Teheran. Suddenly the consequences of Britain's policy of icy commercial hauteur and America's righteous paralysis were starkly obvious...
...White House quivered with righteous indignation. Said Press Secretary Joe Short: "The President thinks that the recording of telephone conversations is outrageous." Next day-the day that he was also busy firing MacArthur-Harry Truman was right back on Tobey's wire. He, like some Capitol Hill reporters, had heard that Tobey was talking impeachment over the RFC affair. No, said Tobey, he had intended "nothing of the sort." Replied Truman: "I've gotten that information from a source in whom I have the most complete confidence . . . Now let me tell you this, Senator. If you want...
...Romans were right-there's no show like watching people thrown to the lions. " Manhattan radio station WNEW hired Psychologist Ernest Dichter to explain it all. He concluded that the hearings were supersoap opera: "The pure and wonderful hero was Kefauver, the 'Just Plain Bill' was righteous, moralistic Senator Tobey . . . As a psychologist, I wonder if it was a desire to feel superior that so fascinated the millions of us who heard Virginia Hill...
...teaches religion, if he attempts to be definite, if he admonishes and exhorts, if he really loves God and his neighbor fearlessly, he will be despised and rejected . . . Scandals will be spread about him and the witchlike malice of the self-righteous will fall on him. The pride of the semi-educated . . . will flourish in village sloth. 'Many country people think there is something in all this religion,' as [Anglican Layman] Samuel Gurney says, 'and they aren't going to have anything to do with...