Word: pride
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even when discussing the goals of the team this year, Coughlin admirably focuses on pride and committment, rather than on specific, material accomplishments...
...editor David B. Lat '96 ("Lat Should Eat His Own Words," Opinion, Oct. 22, 1994). Ostensibly as part of his argument, Ho describes Philippine Forum's annual cultural festival as "masturbatory." He then proceeds to characterize the contents of this festival as "bad food, bad music and Filipino cultural pride, all for the low price...
Still, Democratic leaders should not try to romance them back to the party. Partisan pride shouldn't become the main engine for legislative progress. Instead, a renewed sense of duty should be instilled in our representatives. Why should a campaign slogan read, "We kept their hands tied"? That candidate didn't do anything either...
Hubris -- a kind of convulsive, ambitious pride -- was the tragic flaw in many a Greek hero, but it is life's blood to theater people. What else gives them the courage to put epic dreams on a bare stage, to evoke ancient empires with only words and a few props? Arrogance is the mother of theatrical invention, and the spur to Douglas C. Wager's new production of Derek Walcott's The Odyssey at the Arena Stage in Washington...
...right, maybe camels were smaller then and needles a lot more wide eyed. But the message is reiterated in passage after passage, and not only in the politically suspect New Testament, where socialists have always found solace. Ezekiel explains that the Sodomites' sin was that they had "pride, fullness of bread and abundance of idleness" but did not "strengthen the hand of the poor and needy" -- quite apart from any "abomination" (16: 49-50). Amos addresses the rich people of Bashan, who "oppress the poor, which crush the needy," thundering that "the days shall come upon you, that he will...