Rectitude

Prudence which belongs to the reasoning faculty; the Fortitude which conducts the emotional and passionate nature; the Sophrosyne which consists in a certain pact, in a concord between the passionate faculty and the reason; or Rectitude which is the due application of all the other virtues as each in turn should command or obey.

The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952

He baited and arbitrarily punished Black players and got away with it — the league percentage of African Americans was between six to twelve percent post-WWII, and those few were still operating under 'Robinson's Rules of Rectitude' — a term we'll use here to describe the 'stoicism in the face of bigotry' style pioneered by baseball's Jackie Robinson, who'd only smashed big league sports 'color line a touch over a decade before.

Sacked! 2009

He baited and arbitrarily punished Black players and got away with it — the league percentage of African Americans was between six to twelve percent post-WWII, and those few were still operating under 'Robinson's Rules of Rectitude' — a term we'll use here to describe the 'stoicism in the face of bigotry' style pioneered by baseball's Jackie Robinson, who'd only smashed big league sports 'color line a touch over a decade before.

Archive 2009-11-01 2009

Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.

Neologisms 2008

Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.

6 posts from February 2008 2008

Rectitude (n.), the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.

Neologisms 2008

He incites, as Peggy Noonan writes, "Rectitude Chic."

Mark Miller: Newspaper Swindlers Black and Radler Look Quaint by Today's Standards 2009

Remember that little incident in Salem that went down in history as "The Great Debunking Of Moral Rectitude"?

Get FRC's Health Care Townhall Kit! (Obnoxious Idiot and Gun Not Included) 2009

What I heard from Crouch and Pelosi, each in their own way, is this: Rectitude good; inflexibility bad.

Vickie Karp: Third Screen: An Interview with Stanley Crouch 2009

Everyone's favorite satirical news source, The Onion, is coming out with a brand new book, Our Front Pages: 21 Years of Greatness, Virtue, And Moral Rectitude From America's Finest News Source, just in time for the holidays.

Andrea Chalupa: The Onion: just as divisive as regular news, now with new book 2009