Word: righteously
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roar of self-righteous voices raised against the "horrors" going on in Cuba is being heard from one end to the other of the country. This outcry would have more validity if a similar outcry had reverberated for the past six years when the horrible torturing of people by the "government" of the unspeakable Batista, for no reason even rationalized, except to keep a dictator in power, was the order...
What a pleasure to have Mr. Morris Freedman pinpoint an ill of our times-the self-righteous, smug, pseudo-cultured attitude of the nonconformist [Dec. 15]. I am not ashamed of the lump in my throat when hearing The Star-Spangled Banner, and am utterly sick of the apologetic manner of many Americans who seem to think everything here uncouth, while everything European is cultured and avantgarde...
...Goddess. Paddy Chayefsky's ferocious satirade against the American Way of Life is crude, unfair, sometimes simply dull, but it has the power of righteous anger and the services of a richly gifted actress, Kim Stanley (TIME, July...
...last week, the Red artillery barrage from the mainland just five miles away abruptly ended. On deserted Restoration Road in Quemoy City, the uneasy silence was pierced only by the cough of a diesel engine in the offices of the Cheng Ch'i Chung Hua Jih Pao (Righteous China Daily News), the island's only newspaper. All night long the engine had wheezed, supplying erratic power for the lights by which Chinese compositors handset four tabloid-size pages of type. The little engine rested briefly while a workman slipped the power take-off belt from the generator...
...only economic aid is free to divert a large part of its own resources towards increasing the size and effectiveness of its military establishment than would otherwise be possible for it to maintain. The specific nature and purpose of military aid makes it more honest although perhaps less self-righteous and should be an appreciable advantage from the point of view of the donor country. There are no grounds for regarding the new regime as a puppet seeking to perpetuate itself by means of any foreign military...