Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Education is sporadic and backward. At the most five to ten per cent of the people are literate. One teacher was proud of her class of 40 students because after a year of lessons each had learned to write his name...
That the Haitian peasants can be proud of their life comes as a first surprise to an American. A second surprise is that they are loyal to Papa...
...surprising that the commission found no single tactic successful in combatting riots. The rioters themselves, however, were typical. The majority were male Negroes between 15 and 24, who were lifelong residents of the ghetto and high school dropouts. They were usually better educated than their non-rioting neighbors, proud of their race, hostile to whites and middle-class Negroes, and distrustful of the U.S. political system. More than 20% of them were unemployed; many of those who were employed had unskilled jobs that they felt were beneath them...
...brooding character or the "passionate disability" of which he writes. "Of course I'm a member of the Establishment,' 'he says. "What do you expect? I'm a professor at Dartmouth; I'm a member of the National Institutes of Arts and Letters, and I'm very proud...
...Those were the good old days. But my poetry found me out. I got a call, and I had to go." After teaching at various colleges including Wheaton and Princeton, Eberhart returned to Dartmouth where he was given an honorary degree. He is proud of the honors he has received, the clubs he belongs to, and his honorable discharge from the U.S. Navy. He is natural, almost naive as he talks about his facility in poetry. "The creative urge is so strong in me that I write all the time. The problem is to shape all this into something viable...