Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hard on the heels of Women's Liberation and the Black Power movement, hundreds of male and female homosexuals in New York and Los Angeles wound up "Gay Pride Week" with parades that displayed, in turn, an angry solidarity and outrageous camp, proving that homosexuals are capable of some assertive wit about themselves and their sexual preferences...
Painted Over. Desegregation for many black students simply means schools run by hostile whites instead of sympathetic blacks. One result: a crushing loss of status for middle-class black educators, who have provided the black South with a sense of pride and leadership. A final "tragic consequence of desegregation," in the words of the N.E.A. report, "is the forfeiture of school spirit and group identity. Left behind to be stored, scattered or abandoned are trophies, pictures, plaques, and every symbol of black identity, of black students' achievements." For one black school in Louisiana, the wonders of integration were symbolized...
...success as a recruiter, made possible by a grant from the National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, has caused Durk equal pride and frustration. Though he has persuaded many students to want to join the New York City police, for example, not one will be in uniform next fall because the force has a waiting list of applicants who have already qualified under the traditional physical and written requirements. The key factor, Durk maintains, is never tested: motivation...
Nevertheless, Ford told the Faculty meeting at which he announced his retirement that his "continuing pride in this Faculty, viewed simply as a body of scholars, has survived, and will survive...
...physicians to serve two years in an inner-city or rural area of crucial medical need in lieu of military service. Also sedulously avoided: any endorsement of group practice or prepayment for health care. Instead, the A.M.A. reaffirmed its "faith and trust in the private practice of medicine and pride in its accomplishments." That was not likely to cure anybody's ills -including those of the A.M.A...