Word: prides
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Michel Mourre suffers from psychical disturbance of the schizomaniacal (Claude) type. Pride, desire to show off his personality and to represent himself entirely in his actions . . . Auto-didactism. Blitz philosophico-culture, with motorised arguments, but no main striking force. Highly assured personal modern outlook. Indignant irritation at the suggestion that Being may have preceded existence . . . Vaingloriously established in existentialism...
...solidest and best of the year's firsts was The Encounter, Crawford Power's portrayal of a parish priest's struggle with pride. Another was The Trouble of One House, in which Brendan Gill made a civilized, gently ironic comment on the trouble that can blow up in the wake of unselfish love...
...Victory. Military power, embodied in China's Red army, has been Mao's special creation, his fierce pride & joy. The strategy and tactics of guerrilla war have absorbed a good deal of his scholarly study. His trusty Commander in Chief Chu Teh and his brilliant field generals Lin Piao, Chen Yi and Liu Po-cheng have been the fighting brawn directed by his own bookwise brain...
...Milkman (Universal-International) is a cheerful little musicomedy without enough ingenuity to support its good intentions. It has a droll notion of treating milkmen as an elite corps with pride, traditions and loyalties roughly approximating those of the U.S. Military Academy. Jimmy Durante cuts a fine figure of a milkman's milkman, and Recruit Donald O'Connor burns to win the right to take his girl strolling down Buttermilk Lane (the dairy's Flirtation Walk...
...York Philharmonic-Symphony to Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos last spring. Mitropoulos was "enthused." He knew that Robert's wife Gaby, a first-rate pianist in her own right who often performs two-piano works with her husband, would play one of the pianos. The third pianist, Casadesus announced with pride, would be his son Jean, of course...