Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...take pride, as did my father and his father, in the products which bear our name...
...INTRODUCTION he allies himself with some pride to a scientific tradition of "meticulous self-observation," represented by Sir Humphrey Davy's experiments with laughing gas in 1799. He notes with an edge of bitterness that Davy's experiments were carried out "with a careful intelligence and a spirit of wonder that seems to have vanished from our modern laboratories...
...senses Jewishness as an unformed community of wanderers. Trips to Israel begin to focus his Jewish heritage. Small, spartan and disciplined by challenge, Israel for Gold seems like some sort of milk farm of the soul. The words pour out - regret for not being worthy of his past, pride at Israel's victory in the Six-Day War, and a feeling that even "the perfect story" and "the perfect girl" are not enough. Amer ica, in fact, is not enough...
Paul's "sensitivity" is displayed in the pair's first writing session. Paul, the child-man who takes such pride in his "stylograph deluxe" and long underwear, spins out a story about the girl without knowing anything about her. Pierre rebuffs him for being fanciful. But soon after, the audience gasps and laughs with the typical existential "shock of recognition" when an interview with the uncle coincides in every way with Paul's fantasy...
...States. But now I think the country is getting back on its feet. We've got a good system, you know. I do wish we had a little more patriotism. I don't mean 'America?love it or leave it,' or anything like that. But just a little more pride in our country...