Word: virtuousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agonizing problem. It is entirely possible to defend Dow Chemical's right to destroy its corporate reputation by sending its agents to the Harvard Yard--and I would agree with you on this--without implying, as your letters do, that the protection of suppliers of napalm is a virtuous cause and that all sin lies with those who, in a groping and adolescent way are, trying to preserve their university from what they regard as complicity in a disastrous natonal course...
...faint upon hearing an obscenity." Buckley summed up the attitude of Texas Republicans facing the approaching presidential election: "The dilemma is how to be, at once, both a winner and a Republican. That is the lot of the woman, as La Rochefoucauld observed, who is at once inflexibly virtuous and violently inflamed." Listing possible Republican tickets, Buckley offered his own preference-with reservations. "Reagan, Javits-with perhaps the explicit understanding that if President Reagan were to die in office, Vice President Javits would hurl himself upon the funeral pyre in grief...
...Virtuous? The old brume seldom clears...
...with Berryman's sonnets there is a difference. Lise, excellent lady, is neither untouched nor particularly virtuous. Crimes of adultery and deception have been committed. Nor is the poet attempting either a temporary seduction (already accomplished) or (at first) a permanent possession of the Lady. The affair is intense; its emotions range from guilt and despair to real joy and momentary hope. Berryman attempts to involve the excellent lady in all of that intensity and emotional chaos. The guilt and self-effacement, he insists, should be shared as well as the joy; after an octet's abstract discussion of adultery...
...jazz dancing, sing-alongs, satirical skits and, our reporting indicates, living up to the way we described the girls of three years ago: "Vigorous and venturesome." In picking up that description for the title of Chapter 1 of GI Nun, Sister Xavier carefully added a word of her own: "Virtuous...