Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...valued more than the vivacity of youth. Psychologists often depict these people as brutalized by modern America and robbed of their self-esteem, but these Hispanic-Americans feel that they are emminently important human beings, worthy of the love, respect and veneration they receive from their grandchildren. The fierce pride instilled in their children is indicative of their whole approach to life. "You can be white and have money and not own your soul," one grandfather says. Their poverty is immaterial. If their children can be proud, that's all that matters...
...prospect of a backlash damppens Friedan's enthusiasm about the visible signs of female advancement. With a sense of pride she points to the increasing number of women in professions and graduate schools; to the declining national birthrate and the growing numbers of child-care centers; and to the recent decisions approving abortion and prohibiting sex discrimination. But in the face of a recession, Friedan is adamant about the responsibility of women to protect their recent gains...
RUSSIAN AUTHORITARIANISM. Here in Russia, out of sheer lack of practice, democracy survived for only eight months, from February to October 1917. The émigré groups of Constitutional Democrats and Social Democrats to this very day still take pride in this and say that outside forces brought about democracy's collapse. But in reality that democracy was a disgrace. They invoked it and made promises for it with arrogance, but then they created only a chaotic caricature of democracy. They themselves were ill prepared for democracy, and Russia worse still...
...seaboard. Indeed, sometimes the movie mistakes this for a theme--that he is growing up and learning the ways of the world ("Welcome to the wonderful world of pussy," says the white sailor, and maybe we are supposed to glow at the kid's pride as he leaves the whorehouse...
...peasants experienced a rise in social status. No longer were they to be called indios, or Indians, a term Europeans had used to stigmatize them as inferior beings. From now on they were to be called campesinos, a word whose literal definition--"peasant"--conveys nothing of the sense of pride and identity it implies for this once tyrannized people...