Word: virtuousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dickens describes Seth Pecksniff in Martin Chuzzlewit as "a most exemplary man; fuller of virtuous precept than a copybook. Some people likened him to a direction-post, wnich is always telling the way to a place, and never goes there . . . His very throat was moral. You saw a good deal of it. You looked over a very low fence of white cravat . . . and there it lay, a valley between two jutting heights of collar, serene and whiskerless before you. His person was sleek though free from corpulency...
...accordingly punished by the administration. His classmates came to his rescue, assembled under Rebellion Elm, and stirred rioting which interrupted classes for two months. Tutors' windows and furniture were smashed, torpedoes were sailed through the Chapel, President Josiah Quincy was hanged in effigy, and explosions violated the virtuous Yard. A number of the rioters received the customary dismissal but at least two were taken to court and tried on a variety of civil charges...
...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...