Word: righteousness
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...Farr, a righteous, graying, onetime German professor, has had several opportunities to see the man he thinks so little of. The Gundelfinger of today--distinguished-looking and mild-mannered--occasionally returns to New Haven from his "New Fraternity" publishing company in Sewickley, and visits the library for new material...
...York Democrats were acting as if Mighty Mouse had been caught stealing bubble gum. Even Tammany's politicians, delighted at having for once caught Tom Dewey in an embarrassing position, moulded their faces into expressions of self-righteous indignation...
...Imperfect Wisdom. For five hours, with the White House turning on the heat and helping to direct the strategy, Minnesota's civil-righteous young Hubert Humphrey, Tennessee's Estes Kefauver, New York's Herbert Lehman and North Carolina's lame duck Frank Graham took turns lecturing against the bill. Their arguments were a direct paraphrase of Harry Truman's message...
...there is savagery by proxy, the savagery of the South Korean police and (in some sectors) South Korean marines upon whom we rely for contact with the population and for ferreting out hidden enemies. I am not presuming to issue righteous indictments-or to ignore the even greater savagery of the North Korean army. I am simply stating the elementary facts of war in Korea. The South Korean police and the South Korean marines whom I observed in front line areas are brutal. They murder to save themselves the trouble of escorting prisoners to the rear; they murder civilians simply...
...documentary flavor, however, lends too little novelty to the story's rehash of familiar fiction; and for all its self-righteous airs, the movie does not practice what it preaches. The point of the action seems to be that a smart, ambitious telephone repairman (Edmond O'Brien) can cut himself in on the $8 billion if he applies his knowledge to the gambling racket. By hook, crook and electronics, Hero O'Brien works himself up to a high living standard, 36 changes of clothes and a love affair with another big shot's blue-blooded wife...