Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gradually, the spirit of top-level efficiency and teamwork has seeped down through the Justice Department ranks. "I think the Attorney General should get a Medal of Honor," says a U.S. attorney some 500 miles from Washington. "He's got us all feeling a certain pride in what we do." Another U.S. attorney's praise is the more meaningful because he frankly thinks Brownell is a cold fish ("I saw him get stewed once-but with dignity"). Says he: "Brownell has imbued the men surrounding him with the idea that there, is a great job to be done...
...grace ironically backfired, for they had extended as well the six-year period in which the Federal Government could move against him for tax evasion. Hurrying to meet a May 15 deadline of its own, the Justice Department, capping a three-year Internal Revenue Service investigation, accused the pudgy pride of Seattle of evading $56,000 in 1950 taxes...
...many-headed monster in the stands-most matadors are gored because the crowd is bored. But the mortal, final enemy of every bullfighter is his own fear, confronting him in the absolute form of the great black bull. And how is that fear to be conquered? By pride-Spanish pride. The script quotes the great Manolete: "It is not hard to conceal your fear when you are more afraid of appearing ridiculous than of dying...
...Admiral Dewey Snopes, Byron and Virgil Snopes and Montgomery Ward Snopes. (The reader is grateful for an occasional mnemonic rhyme, e.g., one Snopes is called Eck, "the one with the broken neck.") Malignant, hated, despised, physically maladroit, the Snopeses prevail over better men by their rapacity and lack of pride or shame. They are like monkeys on the backs of men, and they move to "the blind glare of the blind money...
...erstwhile suitor in turn became a Dominican friar, and to him Author Stolpe devotes a lengthy subplot. Father Perezcaballero is the bedeviled Graham Greene priest of the mislaid vocation. A brilliant preacher-intellectual, he has every gift but faith, all knowledge but that of the dimensions of his own pride. Brought to an appalled recognition of his vanity and emptiness, Perezcaballero somehow enables the dying Kansdorf to find God in a mystical crucifixion reverie while himself regaining his lost calling. Loosely plotted but tautly written, the book relies finally on devices that are more pious than imaginative. By protesting...