Word: virtuouse
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...Solitude, for example, the fictional village of Macondo, founded by the Buendia family, starts as a green Eden, then falls victim to collective amnesia, a Yanqui fruit company, catastrophic rains and inexplicable bouts of incest before being reclaimed by the jungle. When the beautiful and maddeningly virtuous Remedies Buendia is suddenly levitated heavenward while folding bedclothes, her sister-in-law merely grumbles that the sheets, which also rose, are lost forever. Central to all this is a compression of time, taut with comic invention, in which old tales and contemporary terrors are joined. The opening sentence of Solitude is typical...
...adapted by feature writers and by coaches for locker-room pep talks. At V.F.W. halls, in cocktail lounges, and surgical scrub rooms, Americans on any occasion of victory or defeat, no matter how evanescent, are liable to exclaim, "It's just like Rocky!" The story of the virtuous and vulnerable heavyweight, Rocky Balboa, the Philadelphia club fighter who "went the distance" (Rocky, 1976) and battled to the championship (Rocky II, 1979), has become a red, white and blue touchstone of fable, energizing a spark of recognition that few film heroes-and fewer fighters-have ever done...
...fell short of the nuclear. They thereby seemed weirdly permissible: as sins, venial, not mortal. They were not, after all, the utmost we had to deal out in fatality. We did not drop what we might have dropped onto Hanoi. By this reasoning, nonnuclear bloodshed is forbearing and almost virtuous...
While consumer prices are unlikely to continue dropping indefinitely, the March decline was not simply some statistical aberration. It came after nearly half a year of steadily sliding inflation. Instead of the vicious cycle of ever higher costs, the economy has now entered a virtuous cycle of declining inflation. Says Data Resources Chairman Otto Eckstein: "We still have not seen the full impact of declining mortgage rates turn up in the CPI figures. Consequently, I expect to see at least one or two more months of deflation this year...
...sure, Jesus offers the downtrodden some consolation: in the afterlife, things will be reversed, and the virtuous poor will have their rewards, and the evil sinner his punishment. But so long as they are alive on the earth, the injunction is to turn the other check and await God's justice. (Jesus gives the reader a small foretaste of divine righteousness when he curses a fig tree, which promptly withers...