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Cairo's Al Misri carried the note of adulation to an even higher pitch: "When the King decided to marry, he chose for a life partner a virtuous girl from the ranks of the people, thus proving by noble example that he is a democratic King, of the people and for the people...
...recent decades, the U.S. has taken more & more pride in wanting much from the rest of the world. It gives thanks it is not as other great powers were, exploiters, conquerors, In the case of the U.S., the boast is not altogether Nor is it altogether virtuous. The peculiar history the U.S. accounts for its lack of drive to dominate other It expanded by picking up (rather easily) almost empty which its borders. Its rise is a story of internal growth, which shows no sign of slackening-thus confounding the Euro economists, both Marxist and conservative, who are certain industrialized...
...report's proposals are not new. It calls for increased loans and grants to underdeveloped areas, for expanded technical assistance programs, for lower tariffs and harder currencies and the encouragement of private investment in foreign countries. These are fine and virtuous measures; they outline the only way to keep our foreign friends economically healthy and enthusiastically non-Communist...
...More virtuous than Voltaire-he was the good man's Voltaire-Shaw was no more free than the Frenchman from the irresponsibility of a chaotically lucid mind which changed the focus too fast for his own eye. The age of Swift, to which Shaw historically and spiritually belonged, believed in authority; it believed that the moral was the practical; it was worldly, though without huge wealth; it believed in the beatitude of the conventional. It managed to believe in these things and at the same time to preach revolution in the name of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. Victorian practicality...
Edna Rose Ritchings, "celestial" white wife of Negro Cultist Father Divine, told Ebony magazine that many people "wonder if we are happy together living lives of purity and chastity . . ." Wrote Mother Divine: "I am as virtuous today as the day Father took me unto himself as his spotless bride ... To be daily in the presence... is the most glorious privilege any human being could have ... I am a sample and example for all to copy if they desire to be supernaturally and eternally blessed . . . Father Divine ... is greater than any atomic or hydrogen bomb...