Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...millions have any defined yearning, it is for a belief, a life, a place worth having and holding. The immediate symptoms of this half-conscious need are two common emotions, which will condition many of the attitudes which we encounter with our aid in Europe. One is pride. The other is guilt...
...Secret Pride. Lammers lacked the perverted brilliance of a Goebbels, the bravado of a Goring, the bold genius of a Speer. He was an unquestioning, ordinary bureaucrat, with the ordinary bureaucrat's training. After serving as an infantry captain in World War I (in which he lost an eye), he became a minor official in the German Ministry of the Interior. Disgusted by the weakness of the Weimar Republic, he joined the Nazis and betrayed government information to them. A specialist in constitutional law, Lammers was responsible for the legislative maze with which the Nazis surrounded their most lawless...
...cherished a secret pride in his ability to handle the Führer. On his visits, he carried along maps and architectural plans in which Hitler found a childish delight. Nothing that happened in Germany was beyond or beneath Lammers' passion for detail. The prosecution last week produced a letter he had written in 1941 to Germany's Minister of Justice: "The enclosed newspaper clipping about the conviction of the Jew Marcus Luftgas to a prison sentence of two and one-half years [for the hoarding of eggs] has been submitted to the Führer...
...Naked City (Universal-International) is the last, and in some ways the best, of the late Mark Hellinger's pictures. It opens with a magniloquent sunlit air view of Manhattan and with Hellinger's voice, talking of his town with as happy pride and affection as if it were his year-old son, already counting to ten. Then the picture settles down to explore the city as Hellinger knew and liked it best...
Creative Temptation. But man's sin is more than a simple sin of pride under the guise of pretension. Man's anxiety is also the source of "all human creativity." Man is anxious because his life is limited and he senses his limitations. But "he is also anxious because he does not know the limits of his possibilities...