Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opening night of the Ringling Brothers circus in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden this week, the beasts took second billing to beauty. Among the scheduled attractions: Marlene Dietrich, in a ringmaster's uniform that would have had Barnum himself barking with pride. The occasion: a three-ring benefit performance for cerebral-palsy victims...
Dutch-born Artist de Kooning has long been a special pride of the most vociferous advance-guard abstractionists. Yet De Kooning himself makes jokes about the word "abstraction" and confesses that he is "working out of doubt." For the last couple of years he has been doubtfully highballing down an art highway almost as old as abstraction itself (which stretches back to Cro-Magnon times). He has been painting women that anyone can recognize as female...
Farrar's faith in the power of good typography makes many a prose-conscious newsman wince. Says Typographer Farrar: "A poor paper with a good package has a better chance than a good paper with a bad package . . . A good-looking paper inspires better writing. It inspires pride of ownership. It inspires the circulation and ad people to go out and sell...
After a brief shudder, British naval pride quickly resumed its steady course. "Morale, training, and a mighty tradition of seamanship, these still matter much more than numbers," gruffed London's Evening News. And Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express regarded the Soviet navy with a condescending eye: "This fleet is not manned by a race of seamen...
...Leverett man generally leaves the House just the way he entered it--unwillingly. In between, various influences and compensations have combined to provide him with a fierce corporate pride in the Butch and a feeling of thanks that he was set down there is the first place...