Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...follow suit. "If things go on as they are," Faure explained, "there will be a line dividing great and powerful nations . . . that have thermonuclear means, and inferior countries. France cannot take a place among 'second-class' great powers." Faure's decision appealed to Frenchmen's pride, but it threatened to dig too deeply into their pockets. If France wants to join the H-bomb club, warned Faure's own Ministry of Finance, higher taxes will be needed to pay for nuclear spending. Last week, after "long reflection," the French Cabinet made up its mind where...
...Europe and America. Born Solomon Rabinowitz, and raised in the little village of Voronko, Russia, the hero of The Great Fair is a "pretty boy with fat red cheeks," who can convulse his playmates by mimicking the rabbi's manner of taking snuff, or bring a glint of pride to his bearded father's eyes by citing chapter and verse in a Bible exam. Since he is more prankster than scholar, Sholom's boyhood sometimes seems like a parade of cuffs, slaps and beatings. As one observer has pointed out, "the Jews of Eastern Europe considered childhood...
Already the Communists are energetically proselytizing among them. Said an old Chinese, sadly, in Bangkok: "Our young people are full of pride at what they think the Communists have done in China. They laugh at Chiang and at the corruption of his government when it was on the mainland. They do not know what real corruption means. The Communists, the incorruptible Communists, have extorted their savings and killed their families. Before, we took our strength from our families. Now, when you go down to the quay, you see the mothers and fathers weeping while their sons go off to China...
...Seavey's greatest source of pride, and perhaps the Law School's greatest source of gratitude, that he has taken it upon himself to be friend and adviser to thousands and thousands of students who are now lawyers scattered all over the world. Seavey spends at least half of his time talking with students--in classes, in hallways, in his office. Call Professor Seavey on the phone to ask for an appointment, and he just says, "Come up anytime. I'm always here." Go up to his office in Langdell and there he is, sitting at his desk, jacket...
...talk is mere tasty acid drops ("I have not the courage to live on charity ..." "I have the courage but not the chance"); sometimes it is compactly expressive of universal human attitudes ("Let me persuade you to try our fruit. We can buy much better, but we take a pride in our own"). Many of the remarks are paradoxical but simple ("I need my mother's comfort for the loss of her"); others serve as a reminder that the real problem of life is in having to deal with other people ("You can do as you will with solitude...