Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Says Lyndon Johnson: "I usually know what's going to happen within the first 15 or 20 minutes of the day." Johnson is proud of that fact, as he is proud of his Senate skills. He is, in fact, a proud man who was born in pride...
...believe that responsibility should go with power." Above all else, it was T.R.'s presidential presence-the glint behind spectacles, the mustache, the teeth, the granite jaw, the Gatling-gun voice-that rallied his dispirited countrymen behind his challenging precepts of freedom through order and venture and pride...
...found itself with an unexpected hit on its hands. Decca is now high on the charts with the soundtrack music of Around the World in 80 Days by Victor Young. Other companies have rushed into vinyl with the sound tracks of such uncertain musical bets as Mogambo, The Pride and the Passion, Hot Rod Rumble. By and large, present-day studio composers seem a trifle more sophisticated than the practitioners of "Micky Mouse" music in the '30s, when whole orchestras simply hurtled into the bass clef when a character tumbled downstairs. Columbia's The Bridge on the River...
...deep to find the meaning of the symbols artists have used through the ages. She finds the beasts of art to be two-faced. The regal lion she equates both with the sun and man's consciousness, as well as with "the will to power, stemming from ego, pride . . . destructive forces to be faced, overcome, transmuted." The powerful, majestic bull she sees as lunar, the great progenitor who nonetheless partakes of the dark unconscious and "the lower material aspects ... to be sacrificed, conquered, outgrown ... so that the positive, creative energies may be released." The reason Theseus had to search...
...finally there are the Others--those who are "in trouble," as the euphemism goes, who must somehow be fitted in somewhere by somebody so the clubs can again point with pride to the precious statistic of 100%--"100% of those wishing to join a club did so"--the number by which alone the system can be justified. It must be able to claim the fact of 100%, no matter how often or how strangely 100% must be re-defined...