Word: prided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Screenwriter Arlen has a fine ear for Texas cadences: "Darlin', these biscuits are old enough to vote." More impressive, she creates in Shang an American hero whose every good impulse--pride, the work ethic, a need to stand firm for what he figures is his--turns him into a monster with a red neck. The script would have been even stronger if Dinh had been allowed some convulsive ambiguities of his own. Instead, he must simply endure, selfless and sexless. Such is the yellow man's burden in films of the liberal persuasion...
...this occupied land, where remainders of German defeat, shame and partition are visible everywhere, is finding cultural solace and renewed pride in its heroes and native sons. In 1983, on the 500th anniversary of his birth, East Germany celebrated Martin Luther. Today, in their tercentenary year, it praises George Frideric Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach, the two greatest composers of the Baroque. Here, where the lives and paths of such men as Luther, Handel, Bach, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Richard Wagner intersect, the glory, unity and tragedy of German history are a living memory...
...hoopla isn't all commerce; a lot of it is pride and affection. "He put Sauk Centre on the map," approved the 8:30 a.m. coffee crowd at the Palmer House Hotel. True enough. No one ever made a metaphor out of neighboring Long Prairie or Gutches Grove or Alexandria...
...that it was unknown, but the nature of its fame. Has a history test ever been drawn up anywhere in the world that did not require the answer: "The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by Gavrilo Princip in Sarajevo"? The people of Sarajevo have nonetheless stoically retained their fierce pride in a history rich--that is to say complicated--enough to explain even Princip. It is good, however, to have newer memories, though even recollections of the 1984 Winter Olympics touch on the subject of Princip...
...they brought to Sarajevo. The children who moved into the apartments built to serve as the Olympic Village strap on their skates and wobble up and down the hard-packed snow on the sidewalks and streets. There are fantasies here just as surely as in Philadelphia. They say with pride, "In school, the other kids call us 'Olympians.' " A cab driver buzzes about town with his new CB radio turned up to catch a dispatcher's grating squawk through the static. "We got this radio system new since the Olympics," he boasts. "Now tourists can call for a taxi...