Word: pride
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...STORY OF LOVE AND PRIDE, OF SORROW and tragedy, and it is being performed by the Boston Ballet now through Feb. 16 at the Wang Center. The ballet Onegin, choreographed by John Cranko in 1965, is based on the 19th century poem Eugene Onegin by the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, and set to music by Tchaikovsky. Pushkin's poem recounts the tragic love story of an innocent young woman, Tatiana, and the brooding Russian nobleman, Eugene Onegin, who breaks her heart. From the opening scene in the Russian countryside to the final denouement in Tatiana's bedroom, Cranko...
...other groups of people, religion is viewed as an "extracurricular activity." Jews take pride, and rightfully so, in the inherent position of religion in their very identity. This confluence of nationalism and spirituality, however, must not be confused with a racial identification--conversion is not an option for members of races in the sense that it is for members of religions. This is only one of many difficulties posed for those who attempt to draw religious-racial connections and define Jews as a race...
Yangdon spoke with extreme pride of her Tibetan heritage, although she has never set eyes on her homeland...
Harvard responded by chasing more of those pesky ballons around the ice rather than trying to salvage its pride...
...small group of rebels impose its will on 20 million Peruvians who do not support its ideas? It almost seems as if the Tupac Amaru militants are acting out of pride and from a strange sort of fear that they are the last of their kind. ROBERTO KOCCHIU Wuppertal, Germany