Word: reliant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that of other ethnic groups which have assimilated successfully into the majority culture. One senses in this book a tone of moral disapproval towards blacks who haven't acquired the civility of the rising Irish: if the poor of today could only become as self-respecting and self-reliant as the Irish were in their day, the "racial" problem would solve itself...
...perfected political boon granted to the Founding Fathers by a Protestant Providence nor an inheritance from European political theorists, but something else again. It was a unique, home-grown institution shaped on the American frontier. Free land, Turner argued, made Americans free and generous. Frontier hardship made them self-reliant and individualistic. Frontier challenges made them willing to cooperate democratically with one another. The absence of the trappings of privilege made them egalitarian...
...stories in the collection are as ethereal. Many abound with typical Guimarāes Rosa characters-robust, self-reliant, as tough and conspicuous as knots in sawn planks. But the ones that matter most are those whose concentric fibers appear to loosen until, stubborn obstructions no longer, they begin to flow with the grain...
...attempted to match their commanders with death-defying exploits of their own. Such compulsive courting of disaster contrasts sharply with the attitudes of the average infantryman, said Dr. Bourne, probably as a result of the fact that the Special Forces soldiers had been aggressive, individualistic and self-reliant types since childhood. By surviving such constant exposure to hazard, Bourne felt, each Green Beret reconfirmed his own belief that he was invulnerable and omnipotent. - Dr. Charles Pinderhughes, a Negro psychiatrist at Boston's Veterans Administration Hospital, likened those who join the Black Power movement to adolescents fighting for independence from...
...most reliant on his sophomores for defense where starters Jim Hampe, Tom Daniels, and Dean Anderson on the second unit are all in their first season...