Word: pride
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pleased that Robert Ziff has translated his enthusiasm for hockey into such tangible support for a sport that has, over the years, been a source of great pride for Harvard students and alumni," he said...
...says. "It was like I was wearing a sign that said, HELP ME." She was not an athlete when she arrived last March, but since then she has lost 40 lbs. and become a star soccer and basketball player. "You are stripped of your freedom here and take pride in it when you earn it back," she says...
...welcomed it as a public, representational affirmation of my work. I was surprised at how patriotic I felt, being the first native-born American winner since Steinbeck in 1962. [Subsequent American laureates--Saul Bellow, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky--emigrated to the U.S.] I felt pride that a black and a woman had been recognized in such an international forum...
...There's a lot of state pride," he adds. "You might attribute it to the Western stereotype of individuality and self-sufficiency that we all feel. It seems to be particularly Texan...
...about the South today, a land full of expectation and bitterness. It is expectant because it is just possible that a new dimension in race relations can be achieved there, yet now the black community is not quite sure it wants complete integration. It wishes to explore black pride to see where it will lead. The bitterness is the legacy of a violent Southern history in which blacks were victims and when this history is re-enacted, the savage struggle between races is joined but is now more likely to be broken off after a while to share the intimacy...