Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Professional Pride. Goodman took to drumming as a Boy Scout in Brooklyn (he thinks "Americans have special imagination and aptitude for drumming"). When he was in high school, he heard a concert by the Philharmonic, and was so fascinated by the timpani that he dashed backstage and asked to become the timpanist's pupil. Six years later his teacher retired, leaving 20-year-old Saul in charge of the percussion section...
With him in the section these days are three or four other regulars (depending on the music to be played), who operate everything from bass drum to bird whistles. Goodman plays on kettles he made himself in his Yonkers shop. Next to his pride in producing a perfectly sustained tone and his ability to tune his instruments to perfect pitch while the orchestra is playing, is his pride in his patented devices for simplified timpani tuning. He has sold kettledrums at $600 a pair to the major U.S. orchestras and to some foreign ones...
...thing, De Grazia complains, modern mind-healers take a pride in passing no "moral" judgments. But, he argues, their very silence while a patient dredges filthy misdeeds from a murky past is a form of moral judgment-acquiescence. And though most psychotherapists deny that they tell their patients what to do, De Grazia contends that they do it all the time-and if they do not, they are short-changing sufferers who have gone to them for help...
...starved in the prewar world. Tradition, esprit de corps, ritual and courtesy are combined with high efficiency and discipline. The Halberdiers still loyally toast their Colonel-in-Chief, the Grand Duchess Elena of Russia, who lives "in a bed-sitting-room at Nice.'' They take "peculiar pride" in accepting whatever recruits are sent to them, confident that their "age-old methods of transformation" can make a good fighting man out of the poorest mouse. In Guy's eyes they are both monks and soldiers-in short, Crusaders...
...luck or (that ultimate folly) leading with a right could keep them from inheriting the earth. But while most American immigrant families prefer to forget their early struggles-or make them sound like Life with Father-the Love tribe remembers the triumphs and tribulations of its hard years with pride, amazement and nostalgia...