Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of the soldiers at the center had been there less than a year, long since the war and the military had come under serious attack. They certainly had no pride in their jobs and, one sensed, they might have been embarrassed by them...
...that philosophy was accepted by black Americans. Today Negro children proclaim, 'I'm black and I'm proud," and Negro adults send cards like the one that shows a little black girl exclaiming "It's your birthday! I'm just tickled black." Expressions of pride are a good thing when they are genuine, say black Psychiatrists Alvin Poussaint of Harvard and James Comer of Yale. But, they caution in the current Redbook, rote teaching of black-dignity slogans may foster not pride but self-hatred...
...danger arises when a child senses that his mother protests too much; if she finds it wonderful to be black, why press the point? Besides, children acquire self-esteem not from words but from love expressed in actions. "No black-pride program," the psychiatrists write, "can repair the damage should we neglect our task of being good parents." That job requires controlling the parents' anti-black prejudice, which is strong in Negroes who are secretly ashamed of their blackness. Poussaint and Comer cite the case of a Government official's wife who preferred her light-skinned...
Poussaint and Comer stress that sound efforts to foster black pride can help black children stay emotionally healthy -but they can only help. The rest is up to society, since, in a racist America, even genuine black pride is of limited value...
...stars, Tyler supplies his charges at Gemini with everything from Arches cover paper to limousines and sushi fish. His first catch was Josef Albers, and the list of his successors reads like a lexicon of the avantgarde. Tyler, as patron, also has his own rules and his own pride of craft. He explains: "Each man will stay about three weeks, doing the drawings and consulting while we're making proofs. But I don't like the artist in the shop when we're doing the mechanical work. The artist has all the aesthetic control; we have...