Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Warns Against Protestant Pride...
Brown warned against "Protestant pride which says 'at last the Catholics have found out the real truth about the Reformation.'" He said that the Protestants must also admit their responsibility, "remembering that the high, cost of the Reformation was the disruption of Western Christendom...
...Americans are!" One wonders whether the American Negro of Selma, Ala., would fully agree with your sweeping judgment that "America's problems are subject to a system of social and legal redress." At best it has been a spotty "system," hundreds of years in coming. There is little pride, and small comfort, in trumpeting with such profundity that other nations' "backyards" are as filled with human hate and discrimination as is ours...
Tear Off the Binding. Anhalt and his wife split up after finishing The Pride and the Passion. But on his own, the talented wordsmith has stayed in constant demand. He finished The Young Lions ("by actual account, it was the fourteenth attempt by nine writers"), struck out on Walter Wanger's Cleopatra after nine days, but made good with Not as a Stranger, an almost textbook example of Anhalt's method...
...typhus. The passengers split into two distrustful groups-one angrily determined to find the freighter's secret, the other willing to accept the typhus explanation and make the best of the well-stocked bar. As the voyage broods on to mutiny, the division widens. On one side, pride parades as honor; on the other, moral cowardice masquerades as good sense. The cruise ends abruptly when one of the insurgent passengers is shot. Cortazar makes his point with considerable force: honor is easily fuddled, cowardice breeds comfortably, human society is both the condition and the result of the breeding...