Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...without ever formally discussing the matter with either Ramsey or the President, who is an old personal friend, Clark had long since made up his mind to quit the court if his son became Attorney General. "Mrs. Clark and I," he said in his statement, "are filled with both pride and joy over Ramsey's nomination...
Touch of Coyness. Tom Clark's paternal pride was all the deeper because he himself spent twelve years in the Justice Department - the last four as Attorney General - before Harry Truman appointed him to the Supreme Court in 1949. With his father at Justice, young Ramsey Clark got his first exposure to the department at the age of nine. The rangy (6 ft. 3 in., 180 Ibs.), easy-mannered Ramsey served a hitch in the Marine Corps at the end of World War II, then studied at the University of Texas and at Chicago. Diligent, if not brilliant...
...Kennedy style! That is the word. The Kennedy style was precisely what Americans needed. It gave a lift to Americans' pride in their country. He was a fun man after hours. Despite the atom bomb and all that, America was again becoming a fun country. Kennedy did not actually accomplish much in a specific sense during his three years in the White House. Neither in domestic nor foreign affairs can a great deal be put to his account. What was important about President Kennedy was not what he did but who he was. In this period of the American...
...last, an article about a man in public life (not an athlete) that we can read with pride because he is "An Individual Who Happens To Be a Negro" [Feb. 17]. Edward Brooke expresses the sentiments many of us feel. Adam Powell is not held in high esteem by most Negroes. I became disenchanted with Martin Luther King some time ago. Carmichael is in a class with Rockwell...
Measure of Self-Respect. The decisive element, which has eluded most conventional job programs, was the inculcation of personal pride that Negroes so often lacked. "You can't train someone by just putting him behind a machine," Sullivan maintains. "You've got to see that he's properly motivated and has a measure of self-respect." The students, many of them migrants from the rural South, were taught the achievements of their own race and of other minorities. Not only were they told how to conduct themselves in a job interview, a basic lesson other such courses...