Word: proudly
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High-blown Jumble. Nor does Humphrey appear likely to change his campaign style. "It is a proud thing to be an American," Humphrey said in Philadelphia, but the pride was somehow lost in a jumble of high-blown rhetoric. With frequent references to the Depression, the Vice President, who styles himself a "man of tomorrow," comes out in favor of liberty, peace, justice, free expression, knowledge, public accountability, meaningful work, open opportunity, public compassion, movement and free association, privacy, rest and recreation and patriotism-everything but the "politics of joy," a theme now absent from Humphrey's oratory...
Died. Russell V. Downing, 67, president and director from 1952-66 of New York's Radio City Music Hall, world's largest indoor movie theater (6,200 seats); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In the 36 years of its existence, Downing was proud to point out, the Music Hall not only kept to the "family movie" formula, but attracted more than 200 million paying customers at a rate of 6,000,000 a year-more than the annual number of visitors to the Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty and United Nations combined...
MOTHER: "Now Daddy, you have to let Johnny decide. You haven't let him slip a word in edgewise and he's probably just busting' his sides waiting to tell us that he wants to become a doctor or a lawyer or something which will make us proud. What is it son don't be afraid, tell Mummy and Daddy what you want to be when you grow...
Every time Roman Polanski puts his name on a film, six dozen critics say he's out-Hitchcocked Hitchcock. Rosemary's Baby, a pointless and supremely mediocre melodrama, provoked the same now-customary response: one New York paper assumed confidently that Hitchcock would have been proud to have made it and, on nearer horizons, Boston After Dark's very own Deac Rossell (a nice tall boy who smiles a lot) decided to write a paramount press release calling Rosemary's Baby "worthy of the dean of film thrillers, Hitchcock." I get mad when I read this kind of nonsense...
Llewellyn S. Thompson Jr., LL.D., U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union. Quiet American, whose knowledge, patience, diligence and discipline have helped proud and powerful nations live peacefully together in an ever-troubled world...