Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world's 110 million Arabs have shown time and again a total inability to swallow their pride-and a total ability to swallow their own hyperbole. The worse their humiliation, the more unbending they seem to become. A refusal to accept unpalatable reality can be a very human trait on which the Arabs have no monopoly; yet the Arabs carry it to dazzling extremes. What ails them? Can they overcome their condition and function successfully in today's world? Or are they really a case of arrested development, doomed for generations to the kind of emotional and political...
...aching need for one courageous Arab leader to call reality by its name and break the spell of illusion. But it can scarcely happen now. It probably cannot happen until the Arabs begin to feel "equal and different" toward the West, including Israel; until they find sources of pride and confirmation of manhood in causes other than holy war; until they begin to distinguish the difference between word and deed. That day seems remote...
Most people tend to understate their age until they near 90; then longevity suddenly becomes a source of greater pride than irretrievable youth. Age 95 is a point at which many oldsters decide to call themselves "centenarians...
China feels that she was once the best nation on earth according to Fairbank, and that much of her former self-pride has been taken away from her. "If we could put on a 'You're the greatest' act for China's benefit, it might be theraputic," he speculated...
...know whether America can be turned aside from its pride and its madness soon enough. There are increasing numbers, both in and out of the church, who declaring a manifesto for humanity by speaking and acting and organizing. Many of them are young, some are wealthy and are giving generously for the movement for peace, many are poor, some are politicians. As they make their witness against war, poverty, and racism they are confessing my faith. They are my church. I hope my other church's formal declaration of conscience will encourage them and increase the movement