Word: priding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second argument was with Toynbee, who classifies religions into higher and lower categories. Toynbee stands above faith and accuses Christianity and Christians of pride because they will not admit that their religion's major ideas, even the concept of divine self-sacrifice, are to be found in other world religions. Newbigin asked what Toynbee's criterion of judgment could be; how by setting himself above all religions he can have standards by which to criticize them...
DESERT LOVE, by Henry de Montherlant (203 pp.; Noonday; $3.50), is convincing proof that the crudest hands a fictional Frenchman can fall into are those of a French novelist. Lucien Auligny is the creation of Author Montherlant (Perish in Their Pride, Pity for Women), who at his gentlest tells nothing less than the bitter truth and at his worst dismisses humanity with a sardonic jeer. Lucien is a lieutenant who commands an oasis outpost in French North Africa. He is not much of a man and not much of a soldier, and boring desert duty with a handful of French...
...food is wretched, the beds are lumpy and the place has no central heating. But to Turkey's top newsmen, a stay at the "Ankara Hilton" has become a matter of personal and professional pride. Reason: the wryly nicknamed "Ankara Hilton" is the special bullpen in Ankara's Central Prison for newsmen who have dared to criticize the government of Turkey's Premier Adnan Menderes...
...Manhattan's handsomest small museums. Author Saarinen calls the place (36th Street and Madison Avenue) "restrained, not opulent; exquisite, not ostentatious. The East Room is regal with lapis lazuli columns flanking the fireplace and with a Flemish 16th century tapestry above it. What unconscious impulse of guilt or pride determined the choice of this particular weaving? It represents The Triumph of Avarice, and it includes one vandal stealing leaves of an illuminated manuscript...
...woman was a moneylender, but Peter Fury's crime was different from that of Dostoevsky's Raskolnikov. He did not kill out of pride but from shame and pity. He had been marked for the priesthood by his mother, and her merciless determination to pay for his education had led him not to the altar, but to the loan shark's table. After getting out of prison, he finds that all the members of his family have died or been scattered. He lives on in a desolation of scene and spirit that the French, under the fashionable...