Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With his civic pride outrunning his grammar, Texas City's Mayor Lee Robinson said last week: "People would tell me that Texas City was done for and I'd always say: Just because you get hit hard in the stomach don't mean you're going to lay down...
...Times: "One who tried to reconcile her own primitive American people with the invading white men is perhaps no bad patroness for a church dedicated ... to the idea of unity-unity both of the American and British nations and of the Christian churches. It should be a matter of pride to see that the appeal now launched is as well supported in this country as elsewhere...
...lessons for seven years, but always hated to practice. In 1921, at his first U.S. concert, he defied his managers, dismayed the audience and pleased the critics by playing two solid hours of Beethoven. In later years, Schnabel (who became a U.S. citizen during World War II) took more pride in his atonal Schoenbergian compositions than in his playing. A pun-making perfectionist, Schnabel refused to play encores, would never coddle an audience. Said he: "My only employer...
...Chicago's chief examiner, "to place the burden of honesty upon the students.") Only one university in ten trusts its students enough to maintain an honor system. Crowed the Stanford Daily: "As long as schools like West Point supposedly have an honor code, Stanford need not take pride in the mere possession of one; but to have one that works-that indeed is something to shout about...
Many televiewers, the survey concludes, are a little ashamed of their taste in entertainment. They are "proud to appreciate entertainment that has a 'seal of approval' from people with prestige-a pride that is probably a bit elevated because it is frequently pointed out to them that they spend more time watching TV than is quite respectable...