Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President passed, there in view across the room was Herb Klein. He looked like he had slept in his suit, or maybe hadn't slept at all in those frantic days. But his face had the same kindly look, and there was a smile and a lot of pride and warmth beneath the surface. The thought occurred to us then, and again last week, that here was one of the few men around Nixon who gave more than he took...
...where does it all get you? Into the little summa section in the Tercentary Theatre and a one-line insertion in Who's Who. But that's about it. Even the personal pride--the only reason to work so hard and so long for the summa distinction--gets lost somewhere between that first reading and that third reading...
...father's puzzled eyes, Malamud holds up little hope for the younger generation. Resignedly the father discovers a sorrowful variation of the stock Jewish-American term, "my son the doctor." Trailing his son from bedroom to kitchen, from apartment to Brighton Beach, he finds that he cannot take pride in "my son who made himself into a lonely...
...honor and obligation, pride and loyalty of family life-dominant and recurring themes in Ozu's work-are once again at the core of An Autumn Afternoon. Chishu Ryu, who played the old man in Tokyo Story, is present this time as a businessman and widower. He spends most of his days away from the office with his cronies, one of whom exults in the invigorating company of a new young wife, another of whom warns of the inevitable encroachments of age. The businessman flirts with the past, memories of his wife and World War II-and with...
None of these people would have been unhappy if Harvard could only swallow its pride and follow the example of its rival in New Haven. At Yale, all of this nonsense is avoided by assigning each freshman to one of Yale's colleges (their word for Houses) when they first enter the university. At the same time, Yale allows easy transfers between colleges so that students can live with friends they make who happen to have been placed in other Yale colleges...