Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...possible-and for thousands of years men have known this-to develop pride out of a sense of guilt. Many of the military and civilian officials whom Oppenheimer opposed sensed in him an arrogant desire to take into his own hands the destiny of society. Perhaps they were wrong to think this of him. Even if they were right, disloyalty may not be the relevant accusation. However he came to his present ordeal, J. Robert Oppenheimer's life is a bitter parable of a bitter time...
...Mediterranean theater in the slow German retreat up the boot of Italy, and ended the war as commander in chief in the West. As told in Kesselring's foot-slogging style, much of this story borders on a map-room briefing, but through it shines the quiet pride of a good soldier who believes that a soldier's chief duty is to obey orders...
...PRIDE OF LIONS (308 pp.)-John Brooks-Harper...
Still, it is the old folks in A Pride of Lions who engage the reader's sympathy. It is one of the merits of Novelist Brooks that he can disengage the social absurdities and crotchetiness of the passing generation from the admirable character that lies underneath. In fact, young Tom Osborne, nice, sensible fellow that he is, looks and sounds downright uninteresting when he is set beside his retired-lawyer father and his crusty contemporaries back home...
...story is handled with fine ease, and the characters talk with a naturalness that is not at all common in current fiction. What A Pride of Lions sadly lacks is suspense, exactly what Marquand uses to give urgency to situations no more exciting than the one Brooks starts with. Whether or not the elder Osborne succeeds in keeping a big oil company from industrializing sleepy old East Bank never gets to be of any real interest. And Tom's love affair with a girl who at first doesn't understand East Bankers is pallid to the point...