Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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France's nuclear force de frappe is the pride of Charles de Gaulle's old age, and he dotes upon it as part of his ultimate legacy to France. Last week De Gaulle journeyed south to Provence to see for himself how his offspring is growing. He watched a mock alert by Mirage bombers that can carry A-bombs, donned a white coat to tour a nuclear testing center at Cadarache and toasted workers with champagne at the huge Pierrelatte plant where uranium is enriched for use in a planned French H-bomb. The force will never approach...
...latter attack France. "We are worth more than that!" De Gaulle said a few years ago about what was, for him, a degrading dependence upon the U.S. The force furthers France's prestige, makes other countries more attentive to her voice in world councils, and, supposedly, enhances the pride of the French themselves. Said De Gaulle at Pierrelatte last week: "It is successes such as this that make it possible to judge the worth of a people...
...Hurt Pride. The trouble is that the force is hurting French pride in many other ways. It has already cost $8 billion that France can ill afford, and it is still costing more than $2 billion a year. Its costs amount to about 10% of the national budget in a country whose housing is among the worst in Western Europe, whose ancient schools are a national scandal and whose roads are woefully inadequate. Most important, the country faces stiff economic competition abroad, especially from West Germany and the U.S., and could better channel its money into making more computers...
...perfect, but for most American universities, their "neutrality" or their "political" character has always been tipped to the established order. It is feigned innocence to pretend that any other situation could adhere. As Harvard has eschewed the worst features of this imbalance, it is rightly a matter of some pride. Yet a can-did confrontation with its own normative principles cannot help but be both refreshing and supportive of Harvard's essential purposes. This might well mean a diminution or even elimination of some facets of its activities. But essential purposes or not, no university exists sub specie aeternitatis...
Most of us didn't worry about this much when President Kennedy was around. Actually, his reliance on the Faculty for official and informal advice was a source of pride--and complacency--in Cambridge. But his death, some of President Johnson's personal habits, and the Vietnam war made the community far more critical...