Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...flag, TIME'S correspondents interviewed Americans of every age and calling. In Atlanta, Joyce Leviton talked to James Wilson, a talented black craftsman who had invented a flagstaff for auditoriums, embodying a concealed fan to make the flag ripple. He did this, he explained, because of his pride in the flag-"It looks better flying than hanging limply from the flagpole." For Washington's Paul Hathaway, searching out the meaning of the flag was an elusive assignment. "You take the flag for granted for so long that it becomes like the telephone pole in front of your house...
Some, mostly the defiant young, blow their noses on it, sleep in it, set it afire, or wear it to patch the seat of their trousers. In response, others wave it with defensive pride, crack skulls in its name, and fly it from their garbage trucks, police cars and skyscraper scaffolds. In pride or put-on, Pop or protest, Old Glory's heraldry blazons battered campers and Indianapolis 500 racers, silver pins and trash bins, glittering cowboy vests and ample bikinied chests. The flag has become the emblem of America's disunity, and, in a land where once only wars...
...Pride and Passion...
...black is beautiful" idea, conceived to instill a new sense of racial pride in Negroes, has had a practical consequence undreamed by its authors. Black women, now more determined than ever to project an image of loveliness, are turning in increasing numbers to a beauty aid that they seldom used in the past: cosmetics. Responding eagerly to the demand, at least five firms have begun producing cosmetics designed specifically for black skin-the field has already grown into a multimillion-dollar business...
...succumbs to his panicky jealousy either because he is unsure of himself or of Desdemona, or both. A psychologically astute actor must reveal to the audience that Othello is his own worst enemy, and Gunn fails to do that. Othello is riddled with a special brand of vanity and pride that British Critic F.R. Leavis has called "self-approving self-dramatization." Apparently no actor, not Gunn or even Olivier, can bring himself to expose the actorish self-absorption and self-inflation that push Othello to his doom...