Word: virtuous
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Howard said he was disturbed by Northern complacency and especially "these people who sit in segregated churches feeling virtuous." People like Mississippi's Senator Eastland are as subversive as any communist and should be treated as severely, he stated...
...comic whose ratings have begun to slip and Melvyn Douglas the account executive who had risen to a vice-presidency on the comic's back and now decides it is time to get off. The flaw in the play was that none of the characters were virtuous enough to be morally sympathetic or villainous enough to be theatrically sympathetic. But its speech and action had the ring of authenticity, and it was filled with accurately observed scenes, as when two bigshots spend a day futilely trying to reach each other by phone and are thwarted because each of their...
...lost, and said that the sickness they saw around them was only their own. He despised writers with delusions about the writer's importance ("The importance of literary people is chiefly to one another"), and he insisted that literary criticism was "an activity in which uncontrolled speculation is virtuous and responsibility is almost impossible." DeVoto was a man in search of facts. The facts he liked best: those that lay behind the building of America...
...common parlance, equivalent to harlotry, the clean courtship, the honorable decision, the unwillingness to yield principle to personal satisfaction stand out in pristine beauty, and all who were engaged in what could have been an ugly pursuit of passion will be glorified among their own people as restoring the virtuous qualities of duty and respect...
...smuggling activities, he roared indignantly: "You call bringing in a baby smuggling? That's giving a baby a home!" Even Estes Kefauver did not find an answer for that sentiment. But the hearings were by no means a total loss, since Kefauver managed to wind up with a virtuous line: "It's certainly a fine thing for kids to know about the Ten Commandments...