Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...short, he is not the passionate Dmitri Karamazov whom Dostoevsky envisioned--the enormously complicated sensualist who could cry out, "When I do leap into the pit, I go headlong with my heels up, and am pleased to be falling in that degrading attitude and pride myself upon it. . . . Though I may be following the devil I am Thy son, O Lord, and I love Thee...
...have with this analysis is that they have misrepresented, as did eleven Princeton seniors in The Unsilent Generation (And isn't this silence bit getting confusing now?), the aspirations of their contemporaties. The Editor people say we're silent and inward-directed; the Princeton people, whom they cite with pride, are unsilent and inward-directed. Every-body else is, presumably at least, inward-directed, and all of us are different from our fathers, they...
...Eisenhower Administration pointed with pride to its original 1958 budget as the third black-ink budget in a row. Then came the Russian Sputniks, signaling the dawn of the space age and stepped-up defense spending. And then came the full force of the recession...
...producer of the aesthetically if not financially sensible King Lear. Here he is living in an America of monthly payments, You-Auto-Buy-Now, Eisenhower and Lestoil, taking advantage of all that a middle-class world can offer, and, at the same time, maintaining fiercely the values and the pride of an upper class whose world has really ceased to exist...
Although they complain about these features of their new capital, the people of Chandigarh are gradually developing a local pride, and are beginning to look down on other Indian cities. They take pleasure in pointing out in New Delhi some architectural features, e.g., sun-breakers and louvers, copied from Chandigarh. Architect Le Corbusier, often the center of controversy, claims to dislike the furor, but clearly is not surprised by it. "I am like a lightning conductor," he declares. "I attract storms...