Word: virtuousic
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There are no knights in shining white armour for Massachusetts voters to choose from in this gubernatorial race. Although both candidates--incumbent Democrat Paul A. Dever and Republican Arthur W. Coolidge--are making the usual claims to virtuous administration, an independent voter will find his choice is not between black and white next Tuesday...
...more fortified in its fanatical illusions by the belief that nations, oligarchies, commissars and all historical forces on the side of its revolution are by definition virtuous, while those [on the other side] are by definition 'fascists,' 'imperialists' and 'warmongers' . . . There is a certain pathos in the fact that these illusions are merely a 'hard' variety of the soft illusions which Christian and secular sentimentalists hold who talk so endlessly about the 'dignity of man' without any Christian understanding of the total problem of human existence...
...20th Century are such situations, all grown from the plots and protagonists of Zane Grey's novels. For some' 45 years Author Grey has been demonstrating that yellow-bellied villains die violently and that silent, clean-livin' cowboy heroes ride on forever with the virtuous western (or reformed eastern) girls of their choice...
This suggestion, of course, will be opposed by the professionally unvirtuous and the professionally virtuous...
...French. "In the major plot configuration of French films, human wishes are opposed by the nature of life itself. The main issue is not one of inner or outer conflicts in which we may win or lose, be virtuous or get penalized. It is a contest in which we all lose in the end, and the problem is to learn to accept it. There are inevitable love disappointments, the world is not arranged to collaborate with our wishes, people grow older, lovers become fathers, the old must give way to the young, and eventually everyone dies ... It is in keeping...