Word: virtuousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second chance to not watch and the people who were glued to the tube all season discover that most of what they saw isn't worth a second look. A few benefit, however: fans who missed a segment of their favorite series the night the house burned down, virtuous husbands stuck in the city while their wives and children are vacationing at the beach, baseball addicts too bemused by beer to switch off when the game is over, and other misfits...
...nomination, and a loss in New Hampshire is unlikely to help him on the Coast. He had to have the moralistic anti-Rockefeller votes as well as those of his own ultra-conservatives to win on March 10. And plucky Senator Smith looks every inch as virtuous as Goldwater facing a divorced man and she has avoided the handicap of Barry's political extremism. Voters seeking to avoid a distasteful choice between the Governor's "sin and the Arizonan's Armageddon may leap for Senator Smith's open arms...
...quick images, Maximov slashes a scene in place. His hero, hating the smug, virtuous world, rejects the sympathy of the few kind and decent people he encounters because it is rage itself, he comes to understand, that keeps him alive. "I defend myself against them," he thinks in a rare moment of self-understanding, "with all the fury accumulated in years of wolfish life." Eventually he gives in and accepts society, because he realizes that, bad as it is, it is redeemed by individual acts of humanity...
...incident sorely embarrassed the authorities, and deepened a growing concern in Toyo No Kunshi Koku (the Oriental Country of Virtuous Men) over the kind of image that Japan will present to Olympic visitors. For reasons of face, few top officials are willing to admit that the problem exists, but Seitaro Kawakami, chief of "crime prevention " in the Tokyo police, concedes: "Our work is becoming feverish be cause we simply must make Tokyo truly worthy of being the Olympic host city...
...virtuous woman is perpetually threatened by a cloud no bigger than a man's hand...