Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much at a loss to explain this phenomenon as anyone. He compared his team to the "Little Engine That Could." They believed that they were the best team in the league and could lick any other team on any specified afternoon. They were almost cocky," he explained with understandable pride...
...soft and pliable. So Bailey pressed the outer wall down over the septum, covering the hole in it, and joined the two together with a circular line of stitches. This made the right auricle into a doughnut-shaped chamber, with excellent results for the patient. Says Bailey with professional pride: "Technically, this is the best accomplishment I have to my credit, because it's so nearly perfect a procedure...
...despite prevalent misconceptions, the success of Eliot men extends to more serious endeavors than merely those of being "clubbies" or recluses. The reserve and self-assurance of members of the House often stems from their pride in the excellence of Eliot House and in the contributions of students and the teaching staff to the academic community...
Professor von Blanckenhagen claims with great pride the honor of being the first German scholar to be admitted to this country after the war. He adds with a slight smile that he finds American students far more stimulating to teach than Germans, although far more demanding because they are less respectful and awe-struck and much more curious and questioning, but he claims that this seems to be more true of the University of Chicago than of Harvard...
...exactly what the film means beyond "Isn't this a hell of a world" is hard to discern. Surely it points toward an assertion of freedom--man stripped bare of all sham, superstition, pride, and being forced to make decisions, and that the ways of fate and of the human psyche are unknowable and unpredictable. Yet the conclusion seems to proclaim a sort of human brotherhood that is partially alien to Satrian existentialism. On the other hand, it is quite possible the Satre views these two lonely people who find one another as asserting the same sort of freedom...