Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recent decades, the U.S. has taken more & more pride in wanting much from the rest of the world. It gives thanks it is not as other great powers were, exploiters, conquerors, In the case of the U.S., the boast is not altogether Nor is it altogether virtuous. The peculiar history the U.S. accounts for its lack of drive to dominate other It expanded by picking up (rather easily) almost empty which its borders. Its rise is a story of internal growth, which shows no sign of slackening-thus confounding the Euro economists, both Marxist and conservative, who are certain industrialized...
...Sooner than the reactionaries think, we'll be running the country and will have done with the Trumans, Fords, Deweys and Hoovers," said he. ". . . It gives us double pride that the American imperialists suffered one of the greatest political setbacks ever from [the North Koreans and Chinese Communists...
...Michel Mourre suffers from psychical disturbance of the schizomaniacal (Claude) type. Pride, desire to show off his personality and to represent himself entirely in his actions . . . Auto-didactism. Blitz philosophico-culture, with motorised arguments, but no main striking force. Highly assured personal modern outlook. Indignant irritation at the suggestion that Being may have preceded existence . . . Vaingloriously established in existentialism...
...solidest and best of the year's firsts was The Encounter, Crawford Power's portrayal of a parish priest's struggle with pride. Another was The Trouble of One House, in which Brendan Gill made a civilized, gently ironic comment on the trouble that can blow up in the wake of unselfish love...
...Milkman (Universal-International) is a cheerful little musicomedy without enough ingenuity to support its good intentions. It has a droll notion of treating milkmen as an elite corps with pride, traditions and loyalties roughly approximating those of the U.S. Military Academy. Jimmy Durante cuts a fine figure of a milkman's milkman, and Recruit Donald O'Connor burns to win the right to take his girl strolling down Buttermilk Lane (the dairy's Flirtation Walk...