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...engulfed even this university--if the former, then we can only turn for comfort to the shining lessons of the great stoic, "O tempora, O mores!" If the latter--remembering that this outrage occurs day after day and at reduced rates--we must join the great Orator in his righteous outburst of indignation and exclaim, "Quousque tandem, Catilina, abutere patientia nostra...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: This Stinks | 3/30/1951 | See Source »

...executive offices of big business." Wilson, they declared, would accept "window-dressing, supplied by labor, to cover the back-room activities of the leaders of industry who staff the ODM." But, said the bosses, "he will get no such window-dressing" from organized labor. And with a self-righteous assertion that "we of the U.L.P.C. have voiced these criticisms not to impair our defense program but to improve it," they resigned en masse from all the advisory Government positions they had held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOBILIZATION: Second Ultimatum | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

...trickiest of human emotions is righteous indignation. Last week, as for weeks before, that emotion was being exhibited in all its trickiness by New York Roman Catholics crying "Blasphemy!" and by their opposition crying "Clerical censorship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Miracle | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

...want. Last December, glooming over low fiction sales, Retail Bookseller bluntly expressed a credo of the trade: "The truth is that the public really doesn't want books worth buying so much as books that everybody is talking about ... a book like Forever Amber, a book that the righteous and the literary will deplore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Year in Books, Dec. 18, 1950 | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

...said, follows in the footsteps of Japan and is using Japan for the enslavement of Asia. In contrast, Russia's conduct is "righteous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Road to Paris | 12/11/1950 | See Source »

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