Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...history departments around the world made him invaluable. For students, his informal yet dignified manner, his understated sense of humor, and his kindness exemplified Harvard at its best. Though a man of style and wit, Professor Owen was not flamboyant; he left Winthrop House with a quiet sense of pride, and he took the mild, subdued course in departmental affairs...
...perfection is a less impossible goal." This is exactly the attitude Elaine and I found in the Chilean Peace Corps Administration: an incredibly naive self-image and a messianic zeal untempered by intelligent skepticism. What can one say to an organization that admits an occasional failure and states with pride, "We have probably made by now all the mistakes that can be made in programming?" Is that good? More to the point, is it necessary? I would claim not. I would suggest that intelligence and a highly developed self-critical faculty can very often avoid the necessity for learning...
Sorokin objected to the enormous grants, often from the government, which now finance so much of scholarly research. He once said with pride that during his six years at the University of Minne-sota he wrote a dozen books, and received a total of $43.40 in grants...
Glimpse from the Window. Wyeth met her many years ago, through his wife Betsy, who as a child had stayed at a house on the Olson property. He became deeply attached to Christina, marveling at her bedrock dignity and pride, enthralled-as perhaps only a painter could be-with the gothic romance of her witchlike features, piercing eyes, and scraggly hair. "To me," he once remarked, "she is the essence of New England-witchcraft. She rules like a queen, absolutely...
...Anderson is matchless. So Charlton Heston found out in NBC's adaptation of Maxwell Anderson's Elizabeth the Queen. Though it is essentially a two-character play, Dame Judith as the queen hissing "Go to Ireland-go to hell" made it a one-woman show. Torn between pride for country and passion for the Earl of Essex (Heston), she played the tug of war with exquisite skill, slowly losing grip and, in the end, turning into a living mummy. Heston, unfortunately, seemed slightly embalmed to begin with...