Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such a stage makes silence more dramatically potent than speech. The deepest flaw is O'Neill's failure to understand the essence of the Greek tragedies from which he borrowed. The Greek hero was a man trying to be god and failing, the tragedy of overweening pride. O'Neill's heroes indict god for failing to be god, or even to be; they suffer the pathos of grievance at man's inscrutable lot. By superimposing the events of the Greeks on the attitudes of moderns, O'Neill gives playgoers the sometimes heartrending spectacle...
...steady 7% each year without any increase in prices (tuna is one of the few foods that cost the consumer less today than a decade ago), stocky Gilbert Van Camp foresees an ever brighter future for his company. His life is wrapped up in fish. His special pride is an 85-ft. power boat, the Vantuna, on which he likes to cruise with his wife and four daughters, aged 10 to 18. What do they do on their cruises? They fish. Boasts Van Camp: "We horsed in 30 tons of tuna last summer just on weekends...
...flew to Kerr's 55,000-acre ranch near Big Cedar to dedicate a road that, in the words of one Oklahoma paper, "starts nowhere in particular and goes to a suburb of the same place." Even at the height of his power, Kerr still took the most pride in what he had done for his own state. As he flew over the flat land near Tulsa last month, Bob Kerr said: "If I live ten more years in this job, there won't be a muddy stream left in Oklahoma...
More than the gulf between these men keeps the papers mute. Pride and prejudice are deeply involved on both sides. The I.T.U. is a proud union, with roots buried deep in the 18th century, when some New York City compositors agitated for a pay increase to $1 a day. The I.T.U. printer considers his job a personal possession, like a car or a house-not a work privilege to be conferred and withdrawn by management...
...pride and prejudice of the newspaper publishers prevents them from granting the printers, or other mechanical help, full membership in journalism's family. A printer does not earn pay boosts on merit; his leaders negotiate them. None of the I.T.U.'s 115,000 members get a penny more than the wages set at contract time. The situation tends to dehumanize relations and to develop a common respect for power...