Word: pride
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...distinct recipes for the American melting pot. In Room B-3, an English-immersion class, teacher Judy Nguyen plinks on the piano. Winsome, if off-key, her 29 charges launch into "My country 'tis of thee," fading away uncertainly as they reach the line "Land of the Pilgrims' pride." About half the children are native Vietnamese speakers; nine are Hispanic. But the book box holds the Berenstain Bears and Dr. Seuss; cheery posters list the days of the week and the months of the year--in English only. At day's end the lesson is about "contours." With crayons...
...issue has taken on national dimensions. Last month Senate majority leader Robert Dole injected it squarely into the presidential campaign, declaring, "We must stop the practice of multilingual education as a means of instilling ethnic pride or as a therapy for low self-esteem." The red-meat rhetoric pleased conservatives, and Dole plans to introduce legislation this month declaring English the nation's "official language." But in an interview Friday, he said he will not seek to end bilingual programs so long as they "ensure that people learn English in a timely fashion." Some pending bills, however, would virtually dismantle...
...preserves Quaker ideas of matrimonial equality. Conventional 18th century portraits have the wife looking adoringly at the husband, who looks at you. Not here: it is Sarah who occupies the foreground and fixes you with a composed, level gaze, while Thomas looks at her with a pride that seems very far from proprietorial complacency. It is a beautiful reflection of the equality of man and wife in a voluntary contract...
...will do even more in the future. The true way to help Michael Little Boy Sr. and his family is to send him a copy of Colin Powell's book, which is testimony to how a man from a challenged background can reach the top. Powell's parents had pride in themselves, their children and their home, which is a lot more than Little Boy can say, as shown by the squalor he tolerates, a behavior his children will emulate. IRVIN S. NAYLOR York, Pennsylvania...
...smoldering Afrocentricity that gives his work depth, connecting it to a cultural reality larger than the movies in which he appears. In one scene in The Pelican Brief, he kicks at a cab that has passed him by. In Devil in a Blue Dress, his character takes pointed pride in being one of the few blacks in his neighborhood to own his own home. Says Carl Franklin, who directed Devil: "Denzel is blessed. He has 'it.'" Other black actors had it but never got the chance. Washington, at last, is getting...