Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pride and excellence go hand in hand; one promotes the other. Black solidarity is Professor Kilson's term for what is becoming Third World solidarity. It is neither thumb-sucking behavior nor a cop-out, but rather a positive expression of shared interests that demonstrates an increasing potential for meaningful interaction between culturally distinct groups...
This does not mean that Vance, an affluent Wall Street lawyer with long service in Democratic Administrations and close ties to the once dominant Eastern foreign policy establishment, disagrees in any basic way with Carter's goals in world affairs. Indeed, he takes considerable pride in helping to shape them. Nor does it mean that he is without blame for some of the setbacks those policies have suffered...
...subsequent "understanding" between Carter and Panamanian Chief of Government Omar Torrijos that provided for the American defense of the canal if it was endangered. But by gratuitously spelling out the right of the U.S. to reintroduce troops into Panama for virtually any reason, DeConcini grievously offended Panamanian national pride. It was the issue of sovereignty that had prompted negotiations in the first place...
...where there are immutable laws of action and response, where figures line up and yield answers without argument, without any need for cajolery and bourbon. Much of his trouble in the mystical arena of political leadership arises when he tries to apply these bloodless principles to human power and pride...
Fitzgerald suffered the greatest pain-and possessed the most generous memory. His letter requesting that his name be removed from The Snows of Kilimanjaro is a masterpiece of wounded pride, exhibiting a grace under pressures more trying than Papa's wars or big-game hunts...