Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Marion speaks softly when he talks about first place. He doesn't want to make waves with talk of titles. He does not want fate (and the opposition) to take his cautions optimism for overblown pride, because...well...all the first place talk is very "iffy...
PERHAPS YOUR HIGH SCHOOL English teacher told you that tragedy died on the way to the twentieth century. Lyndon Johnson proved her wrong In an era searching for human grandeur, Johnson flaunted the strengths and flaws of a tragic hero, Puffed with pride and ambition, he dared to challenge the rule of the gods. Or more precisely in our de- deified world he dared to thwart the course of history...
...controversial, So he made the decision to hold the line in Vietnam. As the line became harder to hold, he kept hoping that a little more force would do the job. There were always wise men around him to reinforce the delusion. And thus he proceeded, propelled by pride and fear, to become not the great healer and friend of the little man, but the prosecutor of a bitterly hated war. Lyndon Johnson destroyed Vietnam; Vietnam destroyed Lyndon Johnson. It was a next apposition of tragedies...
...more urban Indians of the 1970s would not share the reticence of their reservation-bred elders. The ransacking of the Bureau of Indian Affairs by 600-odd Indian militants who gathered in Washington to demonstrate for needed changes in federal policy is another indication that the old era of pride has given way to a new-and surprisingly delayed-period of violent protest. Offices were torn apart, furniture was smashed, the walls were covered with aerosol-can graffiti; typewriters, books and some 600 paintings were simply stolen. Now that the full extent of the damage has been revealed...
Above all, Halberstam's Viet Nam is a disaster made to seem as inexorable as Greek tragedy. Here, in all conceivable detail, is the story of confident men misled by ambition, by pride, by a kind of moral and political blindness into a still incredible catastrophe-one in which a whole nation appeared to lose its innocence along with them...