Word: virtuouse
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...pays "institutional lip service" to equality but "vigorously upholds a segregated network of schools and homes." We Jews who have access to the rich cosmopolitan life of the University and the world of the intelligentsia may look askance at the Jew who "chooses" to "segregate" himself. But our virtuous renunciation of Jewishness rests on the availability of a preferred alternative. We are not warranted in judging harshly those who find comfort in a Jewish milieu. The melting pot is an opportunity not a duty. This insistence in nationalistic uniformity is in curious contradiction to our praise of difference and variety...
Three people are in the room, two women and a man. The man (Morgan Sterne) is a coward who betrayed his revolutionary comrades to torture and death. One of the women (Viveca Lindfors) is a lesbian who seduced a virtuous young housewife and slowly, out of sheer unnatural viciousness, destroyed her. The other is a rich woman (Rita Gam) who drowned her baby and inspired her nice old husband to blow his brains out. Briskly they confess their sins, warily they begin to discover what manner of hell they are in. The coward longs to be saved, the lesbian prefers...
...Harragh has even made a secret bargain with Bambas-Quincy to marry off his psychotic daughter to unwitting Ben in return for the contract. Ben Smith runs back to New York, convinced by a disreputable art dealer that he should join him in the art business. The only virtuous life, the dealer (called Max Klebenau) explains, lies in helping the few artistic geniuses of the world...
Virtue: "... Losing your virtue might be considered virtuous by the fellow you lost your virtue to ... You have to make your own laws about that...
...today), hints at torpor by remarking that the author must certainly have had feminine help in constructing so dainty a work. An anonymous English critic finds "a gentle current of interest" running through Howells' work, although he admits to an uncontrollable urge to kick the author's virtuous heroes. An American lady paragrapher writes with malice that she is always able to go to sleep at her customary hour when reading Howells...