Word: rightcousness
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...happy things about this country is the wealth of opportunities Americans have to be morally self-rightcous. Such an opportunity was taken by the Department of State this week when it made 27 per cent of the United States off limits to citizens of the Soviet Union. But the unfortunate thing about efforts at proper indignation is that they are often silly and ineffective. The new restrictions are no exception...
...people's champions" in the Massachusetts legislature, when they placed the rule of compulsory loyalty oaths upon the faculties of innumerable educational institutions in their own state, were undoubtedly acting with the rightcous feeling that they were protecting the people against a huge impending danger. From now on teachers in Massachusetts must swear allegiance to the prevailing character of the American government and hush their thoughts on the values or the facts of all other types. Compulsory oaths of this sort are the result of an unnatural, brooding resentment among the masses against the intellectuals, who are supposedly toying with...
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