Word: uprighteously
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Would it not have made the emaciated victims in black and white striped concentration camp garb proud if they knew that next to them, in similarly glossy, yet much more dignified and multicolored photographs, were the pictures of smiling children walking upright in the streets of Jerusalem, or Tel Aviv, or Haifa, or countless other Israeli cities? Why were there no pictures of the diversity of modern Israeli cities--of the Ethiopian and Russian and thousands of other different immigrants--a demonstration for the world that the Jews now have a safe haven and are being protected by their...
...United States will be disgraced if the Confederate flag flies over the Summer Games in Atlanta. Every decent American should be outraged that the Confederate flag will be displayed to the world, announcing a rejection of all that is upright and noble. Traitors, miscreants and goons from Jefferson Davis to Orville Faubus will be laughing in their graves...
...SMALL STEP One of evolution's enduring mysteries--the date when our ancestors first walked upright--may be close to being solved. Researchers working in Kenya found an ancient leg bone and other fossils, suggesting that bipedalism emerged at least 4 million years ago, 500,000 years earlier than any other fossils have indicated...
...paleontological gatherings. Startled laughter greeted the unveiling of oddball Opabinia, with its five eyes and fire-hose-like proboscis. Credibility was strained by Hallucigenia, when Conway Morris depicted it as dancing along on needle-sharp legs, and also by Wiwaxia, a whimsical armored slug with two rows of upright scales. And then there was Anomalocaris, a fearsome predator that caught its victims with spiny appendages and crushed them between jaws that closed like the shutter of a camera. "Weird wonders," Harvard University paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould called them in his 1989 book, Wonderful Life, which celebrated the strangeness...
...mordantly juvenile ditty circulating in Nelson Rockefeller's campaign headquarters in 1968 insulted every hopeful in sight: "Scranton's a sissy,/ Nixon's a prick./ Romney's a moron,/ Goldwater's sick./ Nelson's your best man,/ Able and quick./ But who is our candidate?/ Upright Dick!" After Nixon's Inauguration, even the Washington Post's cartoonist Herblock gave him a shave (erasing the famously sinister Milhousian stubble shadow). Whatever else Nixon may have become in the years before his forced retirement, he was deemed for an instant to be presidential. Every President, including Bill Clinton, has a hard fight...