Word: virtuousness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...characterization of any groups on campus as "enemies" rather than opponents establishes a Gestapo-esque dichotomy between the base and the virtuous. (It's too bad that members of Peninsula's Council don't realize they're on the wrong side.) Bob Dole and Jack Kemp have taken to calling President Clinton and Vice President Al Gore '69 their "opponents." Peninsula, on the other hand, explains that its agenda is "in keeping with the time-honored practice of making a list and checking it twice in order to ensure when the coup comes around the firing squad knows...
...fact, they are the fringe: the freakish fascists who parade as Americans under the Stars and Stripes while eschewing all the freedoms for which this country exists. They are the intolerant. They are the fundamentalists. They are the malcontent minority who, guised in hypocritical morality, attack the virtuous elite of which they only long to become a part...
...stressing efficiency and the value of time, the philosophy of virtuous impatience affords one the time to exercise discretion. Guided by patience, we too often finds ourselves in circumstances which unnecessarily consume our time. Human nature is prone to laziness. Were we to live by the virtue of impatience, we would temper our laziness sufficiently to allow for the completion of our tasks and the enjoyment of all those idle pleasures we hold dear...
Apparently, Molinari didn't know that the first time she was asked about marijuana, in 1992. She said she'd never smoked pot, leaving herself open to being nailed later for lying. Now she understands the drill. When she followed the prescribed script, she instantly became virtuous enough to open the convention. There were no complaints, even from those militant Christian-morality monitors I have come to think of as the Khomeini wing of the Republican Party. Dole and I went back to our Scotches...
...world, Bill Clinton said after the Atlanta bomb. It has certainly never been a risk-free country. Risk, in fact, is supposed to be the official American game. The American story has always been able to accommodate the irreconcilable narrative lines of 1) considerable American violence and 2) the virtuous American exemption from terror and such "foreign" evils...