Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...convention, McCarthy, no fan either of the Kennedys, whom he accused of "lavishness and ruthlessness" in the primaries, or of Lyndon Johnson, rose to nominate a man who had no chance at all to win the nomination: Adlai E. Stevenson. "Do not reject this man who made us all proud to be called Democrats!" cried McCarthy. "Do not leave this prophet without honor in his own party." It was an electrifying speech-and an entirely quixotic gesture...
...people are not Stokely Carmichaels, that all our youth are not chick-en-livered draft dodgers, that not all the people have lost faith in our President and in his honest efforts to do the best job he can under most difficult circumstances, that some of us are still proud to be Americans, living in a working democracy and ready and willing to do what we can to help anyone else achieve a like state...
...Look!" he tells his Negro brethren. "Look what you've made. Look how beautiful it is. You made it out of adversity. Be proud of it!" He is talking about their cultural heritage, and when he celebrates it in dance, it is something to be proud of. In Revelations, a searingly personal statement based on Negro spirituals, his dancers evoke all the yearning, despair, anger and, finally, bright hope of a people who will overcome. Ailey already has; such powerful, nonethnic dances as his Feast of Ashes and Ariadne mark him as one of the most richly gifted talents...
...Says one Manhattan teacher, surveying the proliferating schools: "They're like bookies -there's one in every basement." Each September, when Balanchine's School of American Ballet holds auditions, the line of hopefuls stretches around the block. The few who are accepted are properly proud and even a little haughty. Says Nanette Glushak, 17, of Manhattan: "We saw a movie of Pav lova the other day, and I can tell you that she was pretty bad. I don't think she'd get accepted here today. She just wasn't good enough...
...tokenism, and ask why the faculty should have any voice at all in setting social rules. "Students don't tell faculty members what time to come in," protests Sophomore Stephen Marmon. "What business do they have telling us what time to come in?" But even Marmon is proud that "while Berkeley students used confrontation, Penn students used communication, consensus and compromise...