Word: righteously
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Kennedyite is two decades old. He threw his support behind John F. Kennedy in the key 1960 Wisconsin primary fight to defeat Hubert Humphrey. Eight years later, Lucey backed Robert Kennedy. At last month's Democratic Convention, as Carter beat Kennedy, Lucey stalked from the hall in righteous anger...
...UNATTRACTIVENESS of all three options leads to a final possibility--liberals might just stay home. Actually, the Democratic left will never fail to vote in large numbers. It makes them feel guilty and cheats them of the righteous pleasure of complaining during the subsequent four years. But they may very well stay away from the storefronts where the Carter campaign will desperately need volunteers. Thanks to new campaign financing laws, their money is not in great demand, but the endless effort of suburban housewives, the station wagons to get people to the polls, the send-me-anywhere usefulness of college...
...rather enjoyed the publicity, and in some ways the train of events moved so quickly they would have been hard-pressed to disembark. They were convinced, however, that they were sticking up for something important; hence, they were disappointed when the whole affair ended with a deal, not a righteous proclamation...
...exposed intimacies is easier to understand than the supply. The public hunger for spilled beans is just more of the craving for news, the yen to be titillated, touched or amused by the foibles and agonies of others. Squalid and sleazy tales may reinforce the smug superiority of the righteous or provide perverse comfort for the miscreant. But Americans of all stripes have al ways had, though not uniquely, what University of Chicago Law Professor Philip Kurland calls a "public commitment to voyeurism." Still, why is the voyeuristic hunger suddenly being so abundantly pandered to? Why are so many people...
Spokesmen for official Soviet thinking are at once disillusioned, distrustful and implacably self-righteous about who is to blame for the decline of détente and who, therefore, must make the first move in a joint salvage operation. "It will take years to undo the damage done in the past few months," warns a member of the U.S.A. Institute. Moscow officials say privately that the Politburo's decision to invade Afghanistan was made much easier by three years of "hostile" Carter policies. "We had little to lose," says an expert on foreign affairs in Moscow. "Your Government had long since...