Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Promises for Players. In 47 other states last week autumn vibrated with high school cheers that almost matched the Abilene excitement-but not quite. When fiercely partisan Texans turn out to root for the lads next door, they swell with an extra pride: they know that most of those players will always play for Texas. Tempted though they may be by the green-backed promises of out-of-state scouts, stars from Texas' 900 league-organized high school teams make a habit of playing their college football at home. (Last season all eleven Abilene lettermen who earned football scholarships...
...Niagara of Faith. Neither classical restraint nor stoic endurance can resolve the problem of evil to which Camus has always been acutely sensitive. In his latest book, The Fall, the nameless narrator plumbs the depths of his own and, in effect, all men's pride and self-love. Camus seems to abandon his view of man as a Rousseauistic innocent trapped in the vise of the human condition, and almost adopts the metaphysics of original sin. The irony is that sin without God to redeem it is just as unbearable as a world without God to explain...
...mother wanted him to become a minister. Instead, he quit school after the tenth grade to become a radio writer and performer, drifted into TV chiefly as a summer replacement. Now, sporting a toupee and a confident sneer of a smile, the new Paar, 39, zanily preens himself, takes pride in guest performers he has shuttled starward (Comedienne Carol Burnett, Singers Diahann Carroll, Trish Dwelley), exchanges mad colloquies with a redhaired, clodpated comedienne named Dody Goodman, and, against his agent's advice, calls himself "the King." (Explains Paar: "Overstatement is very funny.") With an Ernie Kovackian flair for electronic...
...National Pride. Banker Cuaderno was heartily seconded by Minocher Masani, an Independent member of the Indian Parliament, longtime adviser to the famed Tata Sons, Ltd. and one of India's best-known and most widely respected capitalists. "National pride," said Masani, "demands that one should catch up, if not with the prosperity of the U.S. or Canada, at least with that of France or Italy. The Asian intellectual casts his eyes around for some method by which his country can pull itself up almost overnight by its bootstraps. Only too often, Communism is not to him the brave...
...this point, the rivalry between Agatha and Pia comes into the open. Pia had long resented Agatha's position as head of the house, her insistence on order and hard work, and her strong pride. Their new rivalry for the complete affection of Angelo brings all former dislikes to the surface...