Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gladstone was not upset by this slight to Harvard pride, though, pointing out that it could work best for the Crimson...
...Yale students and cannot in a handy way be sorted out for special treatment of any kind. There is no such thing as separate and equal. Why this isn't clear to Radcliffe women I can only guess. Perhaps it is too much of a blow to their pride to admit that Radcliffe is and always has been a poor and apologetic relation to Harvard and not respected as an equal by even last year's protesting women undergraduates who didn't bother to solicit the support of the Radcliffe reunioning classes for their demands for equal status...
Needless to say, I treasure your words, but do not jeopardize your credibility or mine by making me sound too good. I have, as you know, a generous measure of faults, weaknesses and errors. As De Gaulle once said: "Every man of action has a strong dose of egotism, pride, hardness and cunning. But all those things will be forgiven him, indeed, they will be regarded as high qualities, if he can make them the means to achieve great ends." I confess to all the faults De Gaulle describes. I only hope they can be turned to worthwhile ends...
Novak has made it. And-would the WASPS believe?-he isn't happy about it. With pride and a certain bitterness, he is now reclaiming his ethnic identity. Nor does he regard this step as a private pilgrimage. Noting such things as the appearance of "Kiss Me, I'm Italian" buttons and the proliferation of Irish-American autobiography, Novak presumes to speak for the 70 million American descendants of immigrants from Ireland, Italy, Spain, Greece, Armenia and the Slavic nations. "In the 1960s," he writes, "the blacks and the young had their day." The '70s will...
Pete Huntsman stresses the element of pride going into today's race. "We're Harvard, and by being Harvard we have a great psychological advantage," he said. "If we exploit it we can't be beaten. But all things considered, it boils down to this: It's going to be one scraunchy race. Whoever's balls get caught in the slide first is going to lose...