Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Americans should take solace in the victory of the Vietnamese people, for it grew out of values' that Americans share--belief in ordinary people's intelligence, charity, and ability to make important decisions by themselves. We take no pride at all in our government's refusal to accept that victory. As long as the United States continues to prop up and pay for reactionary governments without popular support, the Indochina war will continue, and Vietnamese and Cambodians will continue to die unnecessarily. General Thieu will continue to hold and to torture tens of thousands of political prisoners. The peoples...
...will not leave to history is the discussion of my public honor. I have believed that I should do what I could to heal divisions in this country. I believed that I should do what I could to maintain the dignity of American values and to give Americans some pride in the conduct of their affairs. I can do this only if my honor is not at issue. If that cannot be maintained, I cannot perform the duties that I have exercised, and in that case I shall turn them over immediately to individuals less subject to public attack...
...state laws nor taxes. It is frontier country, where trading posts and prejudice flourish: the reservation's 140,000 inhabitants are still eyed by many whites as savages. But the Navajos are slowly gaining a degree of prosperity and political power, and with it a renewed sense of pride. Some Navajos these days drive cars with bumper stickers proclaiming DINE BIZEEL (Navajo Power). In the towns that ring the reservation, this new assertiveness has been happily greeted by sympathetic Anglos; but others have reacted violently. Last week TIME'S David DeVoss visited the Navajos and filed this report...
...different story with today's black middle class. Rather than being formed in segregation, they drew their inspiration from the civil rights movement, which destroyed legal segregation in America. This triumph imbued many blacks with a pride, confidence and political skill they had not known before. It also made them far less color-conscious than their middle-class predecessors. For many, in fact, black became "beautiful." Toughened by struggle, some of these blacks may now be the superachievers of American society. Sociologist Daniel Thompson argues that contemporary middle-class blacks are "105% Americans-the modern translation of the American...
...Harvard ever had a just pride in the role its alumni play in American politics, that pride can not be restored so quickly after the moral disgrace of Vietnam. Elliot Richardson can not approve of the Christmas bombings of Hanoi as a government official one day and then turn around and serve as an ideal of moral politics the next because he stuck with Archibald Cox. Things do not work that easily. Despite Watergate and Archibald Cox, Harvard needs to do a lot more soul searching about its relationship to the seats of power...