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...lust for power, wrested control from Johnson. They shed crocodile tears for Lincoln and rammed through a plan for Reconstruction which raped the South, using Negroes as puppets to plunder and destroy. Finally, in 1877, the last military governments were dismantled, leaving the South in the hands of virtuous whites and race relations in permanent tatters...

Author: By Ben W. Heineman jr., | Title: Revising Thoughts on the Irreversible | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

...build their elaborate machinery and package them in an abandoned potash mine. In a grotesque parody of that old literary device, the descent into hell, Amsel leads Matern and his black dog through his guilt factory. The black dog, who appears to embody both the bestial and the sturdily virtuous elements of the German nature, remains in Amsel's underworld as a Cerberus. But Matern is allowed to return to the surface and soap himself clean in what could be a mockery of the Jewish rites of forgiveness and absolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hound of Hell | 5/28/1965 | See Source »

...masthead to you for editorializing the arrogant, unctuous Charles Percy into the virtuous hopeful of Republican politics. Knowledgeable Illinois voters have long noted Opportunist Percy's aggressive ambitions to be exceeded only by his unlimited ability to accommodate. Down with the "gentlemanly C"; for a man of proven principle and probity, I subscribe to Oxford Scholar Otto Kerner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 25, 1964 | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

...second chance to not watch and the people who were glued to the tube all season discover that most of what they saw isn't worth a second look. A few benefit, however: fans who missed a segment of their favorite series the night the house burned down, virtuous husbands stuck in the city while their wives and children are vacationing at the beach, baseball addicts too bemused by beer to switch off when the game is over, and other misfits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Aug. 14, 1964 | 8/14/1964 | See Source »

...nomination, and a loss in New Hampshire is unlikely to help him on the Coast. He had to have the moralistic anti-Rockefeller votes as well as those of his own ultra-conservatives to win on March 10. And plucky Senator Smith looks every inch as virtuous as Goldwater facing a divorced man and she has avoided the handicap of Barry's political extremism. Voters seeking to avoid a distasteful choice between the Governor's "sin and the Arizonan's Armageddon may leap for Senator Smith's open arms...

Author: By Michael Lerner, | Title: Barry And The Lady | 2/13/1964 | See Source »

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