Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...article by Peter Rollins discussing the special treatment of Harvard graduates by other universities filled me with great pride at my being associated with Harvard. I showed the article to other Harvard graduates and their chests swelled with pride, too. They know from personal experience that Harvard students are in fact treated especially well around the country and are the last, absolutely the last people turned down by universities when they apply for jobs this year. Yes, how wondrous is the special status of a Harvard man in unemployment lines around academic circles...
Physical activity, Mike thinks, can be "a sneaky way of getting to everything about a person's life." With children, he says, "we try to establish that feeling in themselves so that they have that pride-'I am an individual'-to make the boy accept himself as what he is." About his role with grownups, Mike explains: "They see me out there, knocking myself out, whether it's bleeding or yelling or talking, and then in the office I can talk to them about intimate things, and it's informal, you know...
...enter a new world of words and ideas? Moreover, at least one functioning arm of the OEO clearly has a continuing effect: lawyers for the agency have helped organize the poor in their demands for help. Above all, however ineptly, the War on Poverty pointed to the problem of pride: the fact that a measure of self-respect, as well as respect from society, has to go with welfare...
...Pride is giving way to hunger for many this year in Milbridge; the welfare rolls are steadily climbing, and long lines form for free food. The demand for Brooks' logs fell, his wife became ill and the bills simply could not be paid. Brooks and his wife decided that they had to seek help, and he went to the welfare office. "We got some papers in the mail," he recalls, "and it bothered me so bad I got my wife to fill 'em out." He still hopes a thaw, in both the frozen woods and the demand...
Naturally, Stone has been labeled a maverick, muckraker, Cassandra, curmudgeon, gadfly and guerrilla. All of which are pretty respectable terms these days. At 63, "I've graduated from being a pariah to a character," Stone says with a kind of inverse pride. "If I last long enough, I'll have a certain amount of credibility and weight." Politically, he considers himself to be just about what a leading adversary, Spiro Agnew, says he is: a well-ripened radic-lib. "I was a New Lefty before there was a New Left," he brags...