Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nonetheless, Africans outside the system see change as inevitable. One proposal is that countries should temporarily forsake universities, instead concentrate on building trade or vocational schools. Such an approach, while damaging to national pride, might well be the only way of producing the expertise necessary to develop an agrarian society. "We must rethink the value of education," concedes one Tanzanian official. "We may eventually find that mass liberal education is detrimental to the goals of our country...
...potentates have decreed how they should be remembered. So why should Lyndon Johnson be denied? Vergil was financed by the Emperor Augustus while writing the Aeneid, and repaid his patron with lavish praise of Augustan virtues. Emperor Trajan was so taken by his triumphs, that to satisfy his pride he had 2,500 of his followers' names carved into a 137-ft.-high marble pillar in the Forum at Rome. Alas, the custom has largely fallen into desuetude since Suetonius, who as the Emperor Hadrian's private secretary had the opportunity-and encouragement-to sift imperial dossiers...
...achievement. Says a University of California Negro student: "Black cats consciously play with white chicks. It's a challenge. For him, the white woman is shrouded in mystery. She is revered, you dig?" Adds Mrs. Anita Jones of Seattle's Urban League: "Oh, there's pride in it, all right. Dating Caucasians is part of the Negro's establishment of his identity as a man, and an attractive white girl is the last citadel...
Inventor Bert Adams demonstrated his new, nonrechargeable battery for the U.S. Army with understandable pride. Just as he claimed, it put out a steady current even in extreme heat or extreme cold. Worthless, said the military technicians. No, thank...
...midst. "Just about every visitor to London goes to Harrods," boasts the store's 31-year-old chairman, Sir Hugh Fraser, who succeeded his father two years ago. "It ranks with Buckingham Palace and the Tower." Now Western Europe's largest department store, Harrods is the pride of the House of Fraser Ltd. (1967 sales: $243 million), the chain which bought the eight-store Harrods group for about $100 million...