Word: righteousness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...community interest over scientific advancement, brought the issue before the Cambridge City Council. Wald's vociferous protests before the council resulted in a temporary city-ordered ban on the research. One Harvard proponent of DNA research says, "Some faculty members feel that it was incessantly self-righteous of him to invoke Mayor Vellucci's help when he couldn't convince committee of his peers to stop the p-3 facility." (The p-3 facility is the laboratory, now under construction for the DNA research.) He also criticized Wald for being too much of a showman, often gauging his actions...
Recruitment and outreach programs help to explain the large number of women and minorities, Ira A. Jackson '70, associate dean of the Kennedy School, said yesterday. "The talent is there, and we don't have nearly enough minority representation, so we're not self-righteous," Jackson said...
...reader is almost certain that Mayer is basically writing a comedy but inserting an obligatory, though sincere, political statement. On the other hand, one cannot help but wonder if the righteous reformer reading the book is the ultimate patsy. Maybe Mayer would laugh if he thought someone was actually trying to discover a message between the onslaught of one-liners. Yet it does not really matter. The humor may drag occasionally, particularly during the intergalactic battle scenes. The intentionally hackneyed plot might vanish periodically. But Superfolks, political or apolitical, is still a very funny book. Even Lord Nietzsche would have...
...straight and unblinking, as if to say, "This is how we were." The acting is so good that it is difficult to imagine any actor being anyone else or doing any thing differently. The one fault, alas, is Dickens' own: Hard Times was written out of rage and righteous hatred, and even this TV version, otherwise so admirable, sometimes has the unhappy sound of antique propaganda...
...problem with America is that it gets caught up and entangled in its self-righteous rhetoric and desperately tries to hold onto it at any cost," the crew-cut scholar asserts...