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...
...University's affirmative action plan finally received government approval last fall, but that is no cause for pride of self-congratulations. The fact that it took the University three years and four separate attempts to meet the federal government's minimal standards for fair hiring of minorities and women is, on the other hand, considerable cause for shame...
...impasse finally developed a year and a half after Derek Bok succeded Pusey as Harvard's president. In January 1972, the Faculty voted to establish the DuBois Institute on a University vote, saying "DuBois's name should not be defamed by someone who doesn't believe in the pride of race for which he lived," but after the Faculty vote he was no longer in a position to frustrate the administration's intentions...
...glory days of Camelot. From the Kennedy brothers on down they enjoyed a special sort of respect during the early part of the 60s: People admired them for their style and grace, and not least of all for their intelligence. The folks back home in Cambridge took extra pride in their Washington-based brethren and were generally relieved that "we" were back in power again...
...Harvard has not survived for three and a half centuries by letting its enormous institutional pride be too easily wounded. Nor has it survived by questioning its intimate relationship to the pinnacles of power. Harvard likes to think of that relationship as a proper and natural one, one that serves the interests of the nation. Watergate, coming as it did on the heels of the Vietnam debacle, gave this university the perfect opportunity to resurrect its much-adored self-image as the home of respectable political leadership...