Word: pride
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...administrators pride themselves on the quality of Harvard's faculty and often credit the rigorous and thorough tenure system with assembling this group of scholars...
...Harvard Business School graduates last night revealed the secret to workplace success for gay and lesbian professionals: come out, and with pride...
...people who were successful is that they came out with pride," said Friskopp, a senior manager at a high-tech communications company in San Diego. "The fear of coming out far exceeded the actual consequences...
...P.L.O. terrorists violently and brutally seized and killed 11 Israeli athletes at the Olympic Games in Munich. In 1985, Palestinian guerrillas hijacked an Italian cruise ship, killing an American Jew, Leon Klinghoffer. The P.L.O. took credit for these and many other bloody terrorist deeds with pride...
This is a singular confession for any artist to make, and it helps explain why this show is such a poignant experience. Its humility masks a bizarre pride. What other artist could recoil from nature because its order exceeds that of his own art? How could he expect to rival nature? Did Mondrian envy God? Or perhaps he meant something less Luciferian: that nature, to the artist, is like carnal desire to the saint. It is a trap, a lower substitute for higher ecstasy, an occasion of sin. He knows it is beautiful, but he must still banish it from...