Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wants women "to be people" and shed their "housewife mentality," but she herself is obsessed with tiresome questions of "womanliness," "fulfillment," and political power for women. She says, with some pride, that she's been "a witch of Salem for four years, since my book came out. People are still cutting me up." She conducts casual conversations like fact-finding sessions. Drinking tea with the women law students, she quizzed them, not about interests in law or their work for the Legal Defenders, but how they "managed law school and marriage." She told them she wanted to meet Charles Morgan...
...steady rain. The men and women in the fetid, icy hold were unhousebroken animals. Beslimed in his own filth-a symbolic rebirth-Matt rises from the hold to be dashed with the condescending baptism of the new world: "In America, we bathe." In the strangled fury of his pride, Matt learns a new commandment: "Get power. Without it, there can be no decency." There is precious little decency in Matt's struggle for power. He steals a mistress away from the mayor, then grabs for the mayor's job. But old Mayor Quinn is as wily...
Organization Man. A onetime Prince ton football letterman, St. Louis-born Gene Blake takes pride in being "an organization man" who sees administrative detail not as housekeeping but as a means of achieving the church's mission. Though he lacks Visser 't Hooft's skill in languages, Blake seems strongly qualified for the job: he was a mission ary teacher in India, spent 19 years as a preacher and pastor, served a term (1954-57) as president of the National Council of Churches. In U.S. ecumenical circles, he is famed as author of the "Blake proposal...
More than dinners and sinecures, Giuseppe needs an audience to applaud his artistry. In a moment of pride, he confesses all to his bishop-and is immensely gratified by the sensation he creates. At the last, touched (as the real Vella was not) by considerations of justice and truth, he placidly accepts imprisonment...
Bostonians can point with pride to the fact that Boston as a port predated the United States as a nation by some 135 years. Indeed, by the early 1700's registered tonage had placed it in the ranks of the first five seaports of the world. It now ranks a mere eighteenth in the United States alone. Old engravings show proper Boston ladies in crinoline and bonnets walking along the docks, dwarfed by rows upon rows of masts and sails. Now only Old Ironsides at its dreary berth in Charlestown is left to remind the city of what it once...