Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brico's early career, Antonia shows us Brico at work today. A memorable sequence of shots has Brico coaching a young woman for her piano debut with Brico's symphony, culminating in that debut itself. The young woman strides out on the stage, amid Brico's tears of pride, with the glowing energy of youth for whom all things are still possible. There could be no more moving account of Brico's life than the piercing lyricism of that moment...
...view a baseball game as historic certainly avoids the consternation that a partisan fan must confront when his team loses, and it may also be the more honorable attitude for the spectator to maintain in the crush of the pennant race. No justification beyond some stretched definition of civic pride exists for the vehement strain of chauvinism that some people, and I am one, hold for a baseball team. There is something contemptuous about the person who pins his felicity on the fortune of nine men he doesn't even know. And I submit to this bludgeoning self-disapproval whenever...
...officials of the company certainly are not going to be candid about involvement in an internationally despised system when a large contract is at stake, especially when faced with the recent financial troubles that have confronted Polaroid. However, it is important to note Mr. Palmer's pleasure and pride with the fact that its major distributor "recently tripled the salaries of its 124 black employees." While that is merely a molecule in a bucket, it is also crucial to realize that, because of the racist policies of the government and the white minority, black employees are severely restricted...
...unconscionable with the implausible, Messrs. Ford and Kissinger have again pulled us toward the mire of political mendacity. The large question is whether the U.S. can be both an imperial power and a democracy. Imperial-minded men are afflicted with a lust for secrecy that feeds their overweening pride in power. If the CIA sticks to intelligence gathering and gives up its covert operations, both the need and the appetite for secrecy might well be curbed. This proposal cuts to the political left as well as to the right. It means that the CIA should not simply switch sides...
...William Faulkner talked about modern novelists in his Nobel speech and how they have to deal with conflicts of the heart, with pride, and love, and lust. And it seems here in Something Happened you're dealing with nothing more than a kind of middle-class angst...