Word: virtuously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shaw and Stephen Vincent Benet. Indeed, while putting God on display as a character is normally a guarantee of literary disaster, it sometimes seems that stories about his arch-opposite just can't miss. Presumably there is a sound theological basis for all this: virtue could hardly be considered virtuous if it were also indisputably fun, while a patently offensive Old Nick would have trouble procuring the ruin of souls...
...adolescent. The vicomte too has his excuses. He is possessed by a passionate nature, the ill effects of which, it is implied, are also temporary. Give the kid some time, and he will probably turn out to be an admirable citizen. Indeed, his second amorous campaign -- to bed a virtuous young wife, Madame de Tourvel (Meg Tilly) -- is not presented as idle and amoral womanizing but as proof of his capacity for authentic emotion. Too bad he has what we now are fond of calling "an intimacy problem," and, as a result, this affair and ultimately his life come...
Every element in this situation could be reversed, changing the vicious circle into a virtuous cycle of minority participation and contribution in the Harvard community. Clearly the University must step up its efforts to attract minority and women scholars...
THOUGH appealing, this image of the virtuous and righteous computer hacker should be discarded in considering Morris' computer offense. Put simply, Morris flagrantly violated the law: he illegally entered secured computer systems and injected an unauthorized and damaging program that cost millions of dollars in inoperative computer time and repairs. It was as if he had broken into many sensitive Pentagon and university offices throughout the country and messed up all the files...
Ronald Reagan, a genius at this kind of thing, managed to recrystalize the national morale through his evocations of a simple and virtuous small-town America. He performed an optical illusion that was the equivalent of having Mickey Rooney, as Andy Hardy, standing tall in the saddle. That has been one trouble with Reaganistic good feeling: a suspicion that it was based upon camera angle...