Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More Weight. The son of an aristocratic, violent, and fanatically religious father, Munch grew up in an atmosphere compounded of love, pride and fear. Illness continually interrupted his schooling until, at 17, he went to art school. A few years later he had put on weight and assurance, become the biggest, best and hardest-drinking young painter in Oslo's equivalent of Greenwich Village...
...Basil, a tall, spare tweedy fellow, not only exhibited a rather devilish pride, but took a loftily critical view of their performance. Listening to the volume of booing, he said rather sniffily, "I am not at all impressed." A reporter asked him for his wife's first name. Said he: "Do you know your first name, my dear?" She said it was Cynthia, and he beamed. "That," he cried, "is why I married her. She has a terrific sense of humor...
Harvard has taken great pride in its reputation as a liberal and democratic institution. If this pride is not to turn to hypocrisy, Harvard must not submit to the increasing pressures of the cold war hysteria and conform to all the anti-democratic criteria which would be necessary to prove to the McCarthys and Mundts that it isn't a Communist school. If Harvard is to maintain its stand on democracy, one of the first important steps is the realization that full equality between men and women is an essential principle of democracy. The fact that Radcliffe has no faculty...
...Hong Kong, the new U.S. snorkel submarine Pickerel surfaced last week off Pearl Harbor, a quarter-way around the world. Her record: 5,200 undersea miles, with only the mouth of her snorkel breathing tube showing her trail on the surface. A few misgivings tempered the Navy's pride in its achievement: after all, Russia -equipped with a fleet of the latest snorkel subs of her own-could launch precisely the same kind of run from the coast of Communist China...
...hese poets seem genuinely to want to be understood. One of them, Harvard Scholar-Poet Richard Wilbur, writes, "I am sure that in all poets there is a deep need to communicate." Wilbur places part of the blame for the neglect of poetry on 'the laziness and uneasy pride of a half-educated and excessively comfortable middle class, whose intelligences have so long been flattered by all our great entertainment media that they cannot associate pleasure with effort . . ." There is undoubtedly much truth in Wilbur's observation; it would be even more convincing...