Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President is the pride of the Nation...
...classmates who come back, especially those who live in places where news of Harvard must filter through certain newspapers and columnists, may be expecting another, less pride-provoking change. It has been described in many ways, some unprintable, but the Boston Record summed it up recently when it said, "Harvard is no longer the staunch supporter of the best American traditions it used to be." That Harvard has grown too radical for its traditions is a grave charge, one which every alumnus should want to track down for himself...
...delicate are the relationships, in fact, that today the U.S. is NATO-treaty-bound to defend Britain if she is attacked, while all Commonwealth nations but Canada (which also belongs to NATO) are free to do as they choose. It is a source of great pride to the British that all the dominions did come to the Crown...
Some of the other sequences are much better. Envy, adapted by Director Roberto Rossellini from a Colette story, is the intriguing yarn of a newlywed wife, who is jealous of her husband's affection for his pet cat. Pride, directed by Claude (Devil in the Flesh) Autant-Lara, is a mordant study of an impoverished, aristocratic mother and daughter (well played by Franchise Rosay and Michele Morgan). The best episode is Gluttony, a Rabelaisian sketch written and directed by Carlo Rim, about a handsome doctor, who seeks shelter during a storm in the home of a peasant. There...
Rather, the Coronation, like the Crown and Commonwealth themselves, exists for the people who will be watching it. By resurrecting the pageantry of the days when Britons lived for the Crown, the Coronation will renew their pride in the democratic revolution that has been worked inside the forms of monarchy. The delerious celebration will refresh peoples whose economic and cultural capacities have either passed their peak or not yet reached...