And so thirteen years later, in Lynch v. Donnelly, Justice Burger himself wrote — in tones suggesting outrage that the case had even been brought — an opinion upholding the right of the city of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, to sponsor a crèche in a Christmas display that included other seasonal symbols.
He would later suggest that outrage at police officers using racial slurs against city officials was a distraction.
In today's real estate listings, that pitch sounds like an opportunity, but in other circumstances — a war zone, say — it might suggest an outrage.
But it's not whataboutism to suggest that outrage should be proportional to the relative scale of the offense in question.
If undocumented immigrants, many of them refugees, were coming from, say, Norway and Canada instead of Mexico and Guatemala, who would dare have the temerity to suggest the outrage levels would be remotely the same?
In the period before Sunday's parliamentary elections, conversation in cyberspace and around kitchen and cafe tables suggested that outrage over Mr. Putin's orchestration of his return to the presidency roused a significant number of Russians from a political torpor.
The head of the district's administrators union, however, said LAUSD's long track record of approving renewals suggests such outrage is misplaced.
(His behaviour resulted on May 22nd in his dismissal from his post as the principal cellist of the Beijing Symphony Orchestra).Some newspapers suggest that public outrage over the alleged sex attack may have been one motive for the launch on May 15th of a 100-day campaign in Beijing against the illegal employment of foreigners.
They may be less understanding if a local health-care provider stops offering a service simply because it can no longer make money from it.The history of reform since the 1980s shows that the public and professionals are often more flexible than instant cries of outrage suggest.
But countless other records suggest that the outrages Sybil recalled never happened.
