Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these smiling figures. One of them is a church dignitary who has identified himself with a regime which is out to destroy both religion and royalty ... the supporter of a system which proclaims that religion is 'the opiate of the people' ... It may be said with perverse pride, 'This could only happen in England.' But should it happen in England...
...small group of novels dealing with such themes this week was added The Encounter, the story of a priest's harsh but successful struggle against spiritual pride. Its author, Baltimore-born Crawford Power, an architect turned novelist, writes of priests, nuns and parishioners with both vigor and delicacy...
...peak moments. However controversial in theme, T. S. Eliot's The Cocktail Party offered the best new stage writing in years. And though Carson McCullers' The Member of the Wedding (winner of the Critics' Award) might have trouble proving itself a play, it too could take pride in much of its writing. Better still, both these very individual works, like such recent others as A Streetcar Named Desire, Death of a Salesman and The Madwoman of Chaillot, became genuine box-office hits...
...prepared to admit that a rebirth of nationalism had brought about the re-emergence of some dangerous elements. But "if there were no rebirth of pride in Germany it would indeed mark a spirit of hopeless futility" that would discourage any hope for a German birth of democracy...
Cities in other parts of the country showed the same anxieties. Scranton, Pa., Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Sioux City, Iowa, were all demanding their rights and the Census Bureau expected dozens of anguished cries from the bleachers in the next few weeks. Not all of this was injured civic pride. Most cities get state tax money on a population basis and their officials thought they saw the Government depriving them of good, hard cash...