Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Proud Tower, Tuchman...
This does not mean, however, that the English public is "keen" on the war. There is a general uneasiness, which is aggravated by Britain's fundamental disagreement with America over China policy. (Harlech is proud not only of the "sensibleness" but also of the consistency of Britain's China policy; he calls the French "Johnnies-come lately" to the idea of recognizing Peking. He believes the French view of the Vietnam situation is tainted by the fact that Paris has "old axes to grind" in that region.) If the war were to grow appreciably larger, dragging in China and placing...
...sewing needle was heated with matches and, Hobbs said, "Gertie started putting words on her, but she got sick and told me to finish it." Etched in two tiers of inch-high block letters across Sylvia's lower abdomen, the words said: "I'm a prostitute and proud of it." Two days later, Hobbs added, he used the hooked end of a 2-ft.-long anchor bolt that had been heated with burning newspapers to brand the numeral 3 on Sylvia's chest...
...idiot" at boys who were high school valedictorians. An arbitrary egotist, he has inspired student dart boards on which his photograph is the bull's-eye. Arons' scathing answer to his student critics is that "they create certain myths to rationalize their own inadequacies." He seems proud of some mementos from his students in his cluttered office: a dead lizard, a hangman's noose...
BEAUTIFUL LOSERS, by Leonard Cohen (Viking; 243 pages; $5.75), is jacket-blurbed by its proud publishers as "a tasteless affront." They also call it "a religious epic of incomparable beauty," but they were right the first time. At its best, Losers is a sluggish, stream-of-concupiscence exposition of what Sartre called nausea. The flipster fictioneers have treated this theme so often that the method has become standardized: spit in their shoe, serve it to you. Novelist Cohen is all spit and no polish. His anti-hero is a Canadian writer who has had a homosexual affair with a Member...