Word: righteousness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Western world cries of outraged morality for the arsenal of the press and public. The crisis in Nigerian seems a clear-cut case of the good guys versus the bad guys. The massacres in the North justify the Ibo cause and condemn the Lagos government. With self-righteous verbal overkill, defenders of Biafra cry that Lagos is waging a war of genocide...
...Harvard. (Given the right of ROTC to exist, course credit becomes a solely academic question.) We hope that the Harvard community will oppose any attack on freedom, whether this attack is made by the U.S. government's unenlightened involvement in Vietnam, or by an over-zealous and self-righteous student organization. Jeffrey Laurenti '71 Kendall Evans '71 Thomas B. Cook III '71 Murray Turnbull
...Soul. Does this mean that white musicians by definition don't have soul? A very few Negroes will concede that such white singers as Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee have it, and Aretha also nominates Frenchman Charles Aznavour. A few more will accept such blues-oriented whites as the Righteous Brothers, Paul Butterfield, and England's Stevie Winwood?largely because their sound is almost indistinguishable from Negro performers'. But for the most part, Negroes leave it up to whites to defend the idea of "blue-eyed soul," whether by the criterion of talent, experience or temperament. Janis Joplin argues...
Commencement speakers generally applauded today's activist students for their idealism and courage. "You have reminded us that our powerful nation runs the risk of becoming a callous and self-righteous, indeed, a bullying nation," declared Peace Corps Director Jack Vaughn in an address at Fresno State. "You have warned us that our social and political institutions show signs of congealing into unresponsive and bureaucratic establishments-you have caught our affluent society in the act of becoming a smug society." Speaking at Connecticut's Fairfield University, Lawyer Edward Bennett Williams paid students a high compliment. "Through the scientific...
Surface is just cynical (he is completely intimidated by what he calls the "tradition, wealth, and influence" of the Ivy League--something he can't have). And he writes as if the whole weight of human morality and the righteousness of every established institution were behind his opinions. When I think of the hate and self- righteous anger that some readers of this book will feel toward people with beards, black people, and intellectuals, I find no reason to be surprised at the most horrible things that American society does to its best people...