Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Place is a nightmare of black survival in the white-dominated world, never quite salvaging their own pride from degradation and suffering. A would-be playwright meanders drunkenly across the stage singing the old revival hymn "Wash Me Whiter Than Snow," and condemning the not-so-antiseptic world his family found when they tried to leave their "dirty, filthy nigger hovels across the tracks" and imitate "clean, white people...
...Klux Klan, an odd fascination because the Klan's political philosophy was based on the crudest sort of racial hatred and Hall himself was for his day an extreme integrationist. He read other things into the Klan, though, none of them things the Klan particularly had--rebellion, pride, struggle against oppression. In a poem in Rebellion, he wrote of the Klansmen...
...have never done that in my life. When I go to these people, I am terribly serious, I'm dressed in the most anti-sexy way, often badly combed, no lipstick. You see, this is not only a matter of professional pride. It's also, let's say, a political choice, a form of advanced feminism...
Long Slide. Will the consumer get that message? Much of Madison Avenue doubts it. William Bernbach, chairman of Doyle Dane Bernbach, says that the ads so far are "essay-type things on abstractions." Gerald Shapiro, president of the Carl Ally agency, says simply, "I don't know what Pride means." Charles Moss, president of Wells, Rich, Greene, believes "they [A. & P.] are just talking to themselves." He is right. McCann-Erickson Associate Creative Director Charles Ryant says the early ads were aimed largely at "energizing" A. & P.'s own employees, though later ones will stress the quality...
While his bruises were still achingly fresh, the champ threatened once more to retire from the ring; a groggy Frazier, clutching his pride, refused to quit. Whether either man will live up to those first postfight statements remains to be seen, but there was no doubt that the fight itself was the best each boxer had fought since that epic brawl in 1971 when then Champion Frazier won a 15-round decision against Ali, inflicting a rare knockdown in the process...