Word: righteousness
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...America's war just and righteous? Yes, said the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. last week. No, it decided, 24 hours later...
Presbyterians. At Milwaukee shrewd, silver-tongued ex-Moderator Hugh Thomson Kerr of Pittsburgh caught Presbyterian pacifists off guard on the next to last day. In a silencingly eloquent speech he got the Assembly to declare that "the cause for which our nation is at war is just and righteous, and that our freedom, our culture and our historic faith are dependent upon the outcome of this conflict." This is the nearest a major church on either side of the lines has officially come to calling World War II a holy...
...Portrait of the Intellectual as a Yale Man examines the callow liberalism and the not-so-united-frontage of the '30s in the presumably hard, gemlike flame of the heroine's radicalism (Trotskyish) and personal integrity (self-righteous). There are some eloquent paragraphs on The Old Man, as Trotsky's disciples used to call him; some sore and salutary ones on the queasy performance of the liberal weeklies during the Moscow Trials; some sour clinical notes on the habits of college-bred intellectuals...
...worth-while educational institution has ever been subjected to the intensity of sneering criticism that self-righteous circles bestow upon the Snap Course. However the intellectual snobs who glorify work for the sake of work have failed to observe the indispensable role which the Snap plays in American arts and sciences; were it not for this role, it would hardly have withstood the test of time so well...
...intentions are, but there is one thing I will say. I welcome the militant aggressive spirit of the British nation, so strongly shared across the Atlantic Ocean. ... It is encouraging and inspiring to feel the strong heartbeats of a free nation, surging forward, stern and undaunted in a righteous cause...