Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that first day, I had never heard of jimmies. I was nervous to a peak, trying to play down my own feelings of pride at having arrived at the great mecca of learning, the university with the golden streets. I put my Sony clock-radio on the window sill and raised the first floor window full-height. My parents, yes, they were there, horrified, reminding me that Cambridge is full of crime. My radio would be stolen by a meandering hand at any moment. I scoffed. And then I moved the radio...
...WEEKS you'll be coming to Harvard? Excited? All your dreams are about to come true. Your high school buddies are jealous, and you feel a little funny about that, but Jesus are you proud of it. And that cool pride--the pride you'll come to frown upon as uncool, at least with your peers--may make you just a bit more vulnerable than you'd like to think...
Faulkner's decaying Old South lurks ominously in the imagination, stronger than his characters' memories of the vainglorious days of the South's apex. For what he describes is not the dissolution of Old South pride but its consummation. In Flags in the Dust this description takes on violent proportions as he writes of the demise of the Sartoris family...
...does and that this medium is still nearly totally unexplored. When three days of television of three major networks and several other stations can't produce more "highlights" than this, it can provide a sticky problem for the reviewer. This reviewer takes solace, and a touch of sadistic pride, in reviewing the two worst shows he has ever seen, both of which premiered this summer, which must show that things are getting worse instead of better...
...take matters in their own hands. That is their only hope. The guerilla groups are determined to do just that. This development of Palestinians fighting for themselves brought for many of them a rebirth, a new sense of humanity. Turki returned from his retreat in India with a new pride of being a Palestinian. He felt part of the struggle against "imperialist oppression" and a sense of community with "brothers and sisters fighting in Vietnam, in Africa, in South America, in the United States and elsewhere...