Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a sense of pride and no little awe at the crunching majority they had voted Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's Progressive Conservative Party in the national elections fortnight ago (TIME, April 14), Canadians sat back last week to see what Diefenbaker would do with...
...were as important as the abrupt, deadpan departures of Critic George Jean Nathan from his aisle seat. If that departure came (as it did all too often) at the end of the second act, financial disaster loomed ahead. For his abrasive wit in demolishing flimflam and fraud, his impish pride in prejudice, and not least for his ability to hone a sharper line than most of the playwrights he panned, slight (5 ft. 7 in., 130 1bs.), white-thatched First Nighter Nathan was one of Broadway's most feared and lonely figures. In a rain of newspaper columns, magazine...
...mind. It is no less than an effort to glimpse the African soul suffering between felt injustice and the dim knowledge that the white man's impact has ended once and for all the chance of returning to the Eden of primitive ignorance and tribal pride that existed before he came...
...priestly caste, its very possession of the truth and the power unto salvation is a temptation to spiritual pride. Both religion and science are disposed to make a claim to infallibility. [But] the most virtuous priest may have his virtue corrupted by stupidity and ignorance, and the most intelligent scientist may have his wisdom distorted by pride and arrogance and the lust for personal prestige...
Theologically Specific. What do the Lutheran converts find in their new churches? They find, above all. two things still relatively unchanged-liturgy and theology. Martin Luther, a prolific composer, himself handed down the most famous Lutheran hymn: A Mighty Fortress Is Our God. Bach is the pride of musical Lutherans, and the tradition continues. Just off the press, with a sellout first edition of 635,000 copies, is a brand-new Service Book and Hymnal more than twelve years in the making, with 602 hymns, many of them...