Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...touchy business. Though some of the early psychology is somewhat obscure, the evolving, tortuous effects upon the Prisoner, played by Alec Guinness, are uncommonly convincing. Probing into his subject's mind, which he must capture, the Interrogator is cooly restrained. At last he uncovers weakness: the noble cleric, believing pride to be his own defense, is in truth a very humble man. The twisted confession is extorted. But the lesson is the Interrogator's, who, in the torture sessions, has realized his moral foundering and come to love the Prisoner...
...compelling personal and family reasons," asked the President to set a date for his resignation. They agreed on April 1, and while Hughes ducked out for a week's rest in Boston, the President released a blue-ribbon letter of "deepest regret." He wrote: "You should take vast pride in the balanced budgets now at hand . . ." When he leaves Government service, 59-year-old Hughes intends to take a six-month vacation, is uncertain what he will do thereafter...
There seems no reason to doubt that both Mister Nasser and his constitution suit Egyptians fine as of now. His coups in playing off both West and East have fed his country's hungry pride. The new constitution backs his latest bid for Arab-bloc leadership by proclaiming Egypt "an integral part of the Arab nation," which ethnically it is not. It also declares that "Islam is the religion of the State," but gives no say to the Ulema (see above) as to how the country shall...
...have saved Greece," said tall, gaunt George Papandreou one day in 1944. There was pride in his voice, for his temporary Liberation government and British forces had just put down Communist rebellion in the streets of Athens...
Tragedy of Errors. France was restless and unhappy in the 1880s and early 1890s. The army was still licking its wounded pride over Germany's blitz victory of 1870-71. Church and state intermittently sniped at each other. Sixteen Cabinets formed and fell in a dozen years. It was an edgy and suspicious age, and no one was edgier or more suspicious than the staff of the innocuously named Statistical Section, the French army's counterintelligence agency...