Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guide walked briskly in front of us. He carried an air of pride in the triumph of the revolution and a warm patriotism toward communist Cuba. We saw letters which Che and Fidel had written to one another. Black and white pictures showed the revolutionaries in battle. Other photos depicted Fidel and Che leading a political education class by fire-light deep in the Sierra. The guide entertained an hour's worth of questions and we departed for our hotel...
...Columbia Masterworks has released the entire six-lecture series as a set of 17 records. They do so "with special pride," according to a squib on the back of the box. Columbia's promotion of the lectures has played heavily on Harvard's prestige, and on the prestige of Bernstein's predecessors in the Norton Poetry chair, who include Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, and e.e. cummings, as well as such composers as Stravinsky, Sessions, and Hindemith...
...early Pirandello play, dating from 1919, these themes appear in relatively embryonic form. In some ways, Rules most nearly resembles the young Pirandello's naturalistic short stories, set against the backdrop of his birthplace, Sicily. Like them, it evolves along what might be called Mafia lines of pride, loyalty, honor and revenge...
...nudge scholars into practical fields-environmental impact studies, population anthropology, natural-resources research and maritime ethnology (studies of fishermen often sponsored by the fishing industry). Said former A.A.A. President George Foster: "Unless we are able to train people to do new kinds of research and break down our false pride, we will wither on the vine...
...there ever a poem more dedicated to machismo? By the time of Aristotle, about 900 years later, the Greek definition of virtue had evolved into the good and the beautiful. In the Iliad, virtue meant pride in battle, warrior's honor, heroics in the primitive sense. For all their groans, the Greeks relished war. Helen's face was hardly required to launch a thousand ships. To both sides, for nine years "warfare seemed/ lovelier than return, lovelier than sailing/ in the decked ships to their own native land...