Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Israel. The reasons are not difficult to find. Two thousand years of Diaspora and persecution have left a legacy of interdependence. The deaths of 6,000,000 during World War II, followed soon after by the rebirth of a Jewish state, added first unspeakable sorrow and then boundless pride to their outlook...
...solidification of racial stereotyping." Lawnie Taylor, president of a mainly black parents' organization in Pasadena, Calif., agrees. "Simply ethnic balancing of a school, mixing of bodies doesn't solve the problem," he says. "It often produces polarization." Where whites are in the majority, he adds, "cultures, pride and identities of other racial and ethnic groups, especially that of the black student, cannot survive...
Blacks sometimes oppose integration for down-to-earth reasons of practicality and pride. In Fulton County, Ga., black parents protested a decision to close the six-year-old, $850,000 Eva Thomas High School and spread its all-black student body among four white high schools. Reasons: the school is unusually well equipped and its teachers were proud of having one of the highest college-entry rates in the Atlanta area. Carroll High School parents in Monroe, La., objected to downgrading the all-black school to ninth grade only. Carroll recently built a 4,000-seat stadium...
...halfway. "At times we have regretted its length," he said of the peace conference, "and wondered whether the paths followed have always been the speediest and surest." Aware of the Administration's reluctance to appear the loser in Viet Nam, he mentioned France's past agonies of pride over Southeast Asia and Algeria. The end of the war in Viet Nam for the U.S., he said, "will be the most precious of victories-a victory won over oneself...
...amount of social justice into our legal fabric. But we have no coherent-or generally received-philosophy of government and law to match our actual performance. Here is a classic example of social facts outrunning social theory. This is a strong point for the pragmatist; he may say, with pride, the less theory, the better the practice. But it may also be said that pragmatism has come to the end of its rope...