Word: prides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, slim in a royal blue coat and ermine-trimmed hat, stood under a white nylon canopy in gale-swept northern England. "All of us here," she said in her girlish voice, "know we are present at the making of history . . . It is with pride that I open Calder Hall, Britain's first atomic power station." She pulled a small lever, and unseen controLs shifted in the brightly colored, futuristic structures behind the nylon canopy. The hand of a clocklike dial turned, measuring the flow of atom-born electricity into Britain's power...
...eminence with a ruthless ferocity that awes her enemies and has left her few professional friends. Some have helped her on her way. But from the first the lonely, fat girl from Manhattan saw herself pitted single-handed against a world of enemies. In her triumph, she takes fierce pride in her defiant self-reliance. At La Scala supporters of a rival diva hiss her regularly. It only arouses Callas to cold fury...
...little lad," but, according to palace gossip, the Queen thought him "stupid" from the very start, and "in all [her] published letters which range over the Prince's childhood, there is not one word of praise for his character, not a single endearing anecdote, not a trace of pride or pleasure in his personality." Bertie detested pedantry and loved people. His parents' efforts to change this bias read like a horror story...
Through the years Gerald has kept silent, and the secret has paralyzed his career and poisoned his family life. Author Wilson takes his hero on a kind of infernal journey through the circles of deceit in the world-infidelity, envy, avarice, false pride, false piety, malice-before Gerald can face up to the truth about Melpham and himself. The journey is complicated, since Anglo-Saxon Attitudes has as many characters and flashbacks as a deck has cards, and Author Wilson shuffles, reshuffles and deals them in endlessly changing combinations...
...forty-year career of Jim Curley. For despite his occasional imprisonment and current forced retirement, Boston's loyalty to the Curley image--to the man who provides Christmas baskets for the poor and keeps his followers on the City Payroll--nevertheless endures as a source of local pride...