Word: virtuousic
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...York Times is virtuous, and conscious of its virtue. It doesn't worry about its low place on the newsstands (third among Manhattan's four morning papers), but it occasionally deplores the low state of culture that causes that fact. Last week one of the Times's editors preached a little sermon on why four out of five New Yorkers prefer the tabloids at breakfast...
...Little Priest. Other modern dictators had been men so evil that their personalities obscured the inherent evil of dictatorship. Franco was a barrack-room bully, Mussolini a strutting iiar, Hitler a ranting sadist, and Stalin a bloody-minded professor of the art of power. But Salazar was a virtuous man-selfless, intelligent, efficient. If despotism could be benevolent, Salazar's character was ideal material for "the good dictator." Born at Santa Comba Dao, not far from Europe's second oldest university, in a typical pink-walled Portuguese Village, he had made such good marks in grade school that...
...writings, study her local reputation for saintliness, make sure that no public act of homage, prayer, or religious devotion has ever been paid to the individual under examination. If they and the Congregation of Rites find that the Servant of God was not just an extremely virtuous person but practiced in "heroic degree" the Seven Theological Virtues of Faith, Hope, Charity, Prudence, Justice, Fortitude and Temperance, the primary degree of Venerable is awarded...
...acquired a parrot named Molly, which was fond of mulberries and, much to the consternation of a neighbor's chickens, liked to hang upside down from the branches of a mulberry tree. Molly had been trained by a lady known locally as French Marguerite. Her habits "bewildered the virtuous and provincial hens and caused them to molt before their season...
Ingrid Bergman is that rarity in Hollywood-a good-looking woman who can change her personality to suit her part. As Clio, freed from the virtuous nobility of her usual roles, her brilliant act of sexy razzle-dazzle makes most of Hollywood's glamor girls look like bobby-soxers...