Word: virtuouse
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...crawl-space under the Brandeis University library, to scattered basements and attics. Some holdings were actually destroyed. Then, in 1970, anti-war protesters detonated a bomb in the museum, which for 12 years already had been the home of the Center for International Affairs. Found in the rubble of virtuous indignation was one of the world's largest collections of early Middle Eastern photographs, a treasure in its way as great as the archaeology and ethnographic materials which first gave the museum its reputation...
...dean's criticisms of the Expos series highlight the divide which separates the press and the administration. Buell himself summed it up nicely: "I don't accept the model of the virtuous truth-seeking press confronting the hostile prevaricating establishment. To me, that's a one-sided model. It may hold in certain instances. On the other hand, it maybe the case that the benign establishment is trying to withstand the assaults of the overzealous bloodhound...
Because public television is blandly virtuous and soaks up smallish sums of tax money, almost no one but right-wing ideologues has ventured full-bore critiques. A 25th-anniversary report, put out last week by a task force of the usual Establishment suspects (Vartan Gregorian, Joe Califano, Tim Wirth and so on), provoked intriguing newspaper headlines (OVERHAUL PROPOSED, teased the Washington Post), but its reformist manifesto -- the 351 local PBS stations should get less federal money, the central programming apparatus should get more -- turned out to be tepid and intramural, a birthday wish list posing as tough-minded scrutiny...
...Deputy Secretary of State, where his main job was to negotiate the intricate deal releasing U.S. hostages in Iran. Christopher has spent the past 12 years running a large Los Angeles-based law firm and has had to scramble to learn his current brief. Clinton picked him as a virtuous graybeard who looked the part and could work collegially with the rest of the national-security team, confident he could make up for Christopher's debits as leader and advocate...
...flock. And for anyone who thought it odd that a holy man lived out a teenage boy's sexual fantasy, Koresh had a mangled theological rationale. He was Jesus Christ in sinful form, who because he indulged the flesh could judge mankind with insights that the first, more virtuous Messiah had lacked. Or as he put it in one of his harangues to the faithful: "Now what better sinner can know a sinner than a godly sinner...