Word: righteous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Urban II, a French aristocrat who had donned a monk's cassock. Urban's purposes were to help Byzantium resist the Turkish onslaught, heal the schism between the Churches of Rome and Constantinople, and harness the anarchic violence of the feudal soldiery in the service of a righteous cause-the reconquest of the Holy Sepulcher from the Moslem infidel...
Today there are only 600 Samaritans left, living in villages in Israel and Jordan. Every year they gather for Passover at their temple at Mount Gerizim in Israel, still convinced that they possess the true faith. They pray for the coming of their messiah, who will reward the righteous at long last...
Gielgud is convincing. His Ivanov is always on the verge of cruelty to himself, and to others. In the opening scene he nervously admits to his dying wife's doctor (played in an appropriately intolerable, stiffly self-righteous fashion by John Merivale) that as she approaches death from TB he loves her less, that her illness is simply getting on his nerves. He knows the doctor must think him a monster but, he says, rubbing his hands in agitation, and raising his voice in irritation, he just can't help...
...permit himself-much less his own subordinates-to question their morality. The infamous Nacht und Nebel order of 1941, under which Resistance suspects from France to Rumania were hauled to their deaths in German concentration camps under cover of "night and fog," met with Keitel's most self-righteous concurrence. It-was the only way to combat "a kind of warfare launched by gangsters, spies and other skulking vermin." When Hitler suspended military laws against looting and pillage by German troops in Russia, Keitel's only objection was the fear that such license might be damaging to traditional...
Wednesday, February 16 CHRYSLER PRESENTS A BOB HOPE COMEDY SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Hope and Danny Thomas play poker with Jill St. John as the table stakes; Martha Raye plays Batgirl with Hope as an archvillain called Lobster Man; and Les Brown plays music with the Righteous Brothers...