Word: virtuous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Amour western omelet is highly seasoned and full of natural ingredients: the proud, individualistic Sackett brothers, Tell, Orrin and Tyrel, drive a herd from Colorado to Canada, answering an urgent call for help from Cousin Logan. On the winding trail they deal with Indians (mostly good), women (aggressively virtuous), rustlers (as mean as copperheads), plus a menagerie of grizzlies, wolves, giant mosquitoes and the customary herd of bison. In addition, there are two elaborate fistfights and a six-shot denouement...
...viewer, and even then everyone insisted on waving and posing for movie cameras. Two animated cartoons shown in movie theaters demonstrate the depth of feeling against the Wobblies--in one, a rat (wearing the requisite Bolshevik beard) tries to steal an ear of corn from the stockpile of a virtuous farmer. Fortunately, the farmer's vigilance matches his productivity, and he exterminates the rat (labeled "Bolshevist--IWW") with two quick shovel blows. The music in the production is less authentic and less moving--sung too well, it sounds more studio than picket line...
...party system capable of handling the country's internal unrest and economic woes. Said Evren, in defending the military's decision to take power: "All freedoms provided by democracy are for those who believe in it. Can the rights and freedoms of millions of virtuous people who believe in democracy be safeguarded if those who seek to destroy it abuse rights and freedoms to achieve their goals...
Given a nation with such dogmatically resplendent papers, a Chosen People, "like Israel of Old in the center of nations," the problem of America became one of theodicy: how to explain a history so often at odds with the virtuous myth? Most succinctly: What was the author of the Declaration of Independence doing with a houseful of slaves? The contradiction between promise and reality rarely torments mellower cultures-life is one thing and rhetoric another, and it takes a literal-minded innocent to be deviled by the discrepancy. But Americans often somehow held to the fierce, insistent innocence of their...
...letters to the editor of Pravda serve as an important forum for Soviet citizens to air pet peeves, make suggestions and scold their less virtuous countrymen. "Every day in the school snack bar, Sasha gets change from a five-ruble bill," wrote a schoolteacher from the Moscow region earlier this year, complaining about how children today do not appreciate the value of a hard-earned ruble. "The parents aren't interested in how their children spend the remaining money." A lieutenant colonel stationed in Lithuania urged parents not to send money to their army sons, already well cared...