Word: righteous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Surely many Faculty members were keenly aware that 15 years ago the Mallinckrodt demonstrators' arguments were employed by politicians so righteous in their anticommunism that they wanted to deny basic rights to "questionable" individuals. At that time, the Harvard Faculty stated that those who hold unpopular opinions should not be muzzled and must be able to exercise their rights. The Faculty vote on Tuesday reiterated that wise statement. It was also, quite obviously, an effort to deter future abuse of civil rights on this campus...
...foes. The Northern press was widely critical. The Laconia, N.H. Democrat went so far as to urge that Lincoln and the Constitution be discarded, and that the Democratic Northern states combine with the Southern "rather than have the country divided and ruined to carry out the self-righteous nigger abstractions of a set of ignorant and hypocritical fanatics...
...appointing his brother Attorney General, he praises Bobby's conduct of the office. But he feels that Bobby's record in the Senate is far less laudable. "He is overextended and overscheduled," says Shannon, and while he concedes that Bobby is no longer "the two-dimensional, self-righteous young man of a decade earlier," he shares the skepticism of many Bobby-watchers concerning the genuineness of his transformation: "It is impossible to determine definitively where honest growth ends and alert opportunism begins...
Most Sacred. Temple marriage is of utmost importance to Mormons. The sealing for "time and eternity" that it offers, provided that both partners lead righteous lives, applies not only to the couple but also to the entire "family unit," including children from previous marriages if brought to the ceremony, and all future children. Temple marriage is also vital to entering the highest of the three kingdoms of glory in the afterlife, the Celestial Kingdom, where all dwell in the presence...
...Babylonian Talmud you quoted. This is the manner in which our sages put it: Abraham called it Jeruh (Hebrew for awe) and Shem, the son of Noah, called it Salem (for peace or completeness). And the L~d said, "If I call it Jeruh as Abraham did, then the righteous Shem will be insulted, and if I call it Salem as Shem did then the righteous Abraham will be insulted. I will therefore call it as both did -Jerusalem...