Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard community, a community that takes pride in its ability to rationally discuss conflicting points of view, the 1968-69 academic year was traumatic. The radical student activism which culminated in the April strike produced shock waves that penetrated every level of the University. Harvard's black students, through the Association of African and Afro-American Students (AAAAS), joined with the larger student body in demanding restructuring and a general educational reform of the University. But the vital energy of AAAAS was focused on a more specific goal: a Department of Afro-American Studies...
More important, sheer barbarism is presented in anti-septic and absurdly euphemistic language. This is clearest in Huntington's discussion of the "urban-rural gap" in Vietnam. He notes with pride the steps that have been made toward urbanization: "The U. S., however, has been bridging the gap through two means: (a) inducing substantial migration of people from the countryside to the cities and (b) promoting economic development in rural areas and marketing and transportation links-between them and the cities...
...memorable occasion, which Premack records with almost parental pride, his pupil invented a sentence-completion game and invited her trainer to play. The trainer had set up some nonsensical physical-relation tests involving objects and colors-red is on (i.e., superimposed upon) green, green is on banana, apple is on orange-to test Sarah's proficiency in word order. Abruptly, Sarah took over. She began a sentence "Apple is on ... ," and then arranged a number of possible completions, only one of which she considered correct: "Apple is on banana." Then she led her trainer through the multiple choices until...
...playing, you win." In the Lombardi canon, malingering was a capital crime and injuries did not exist. "Lombardi time" ran ten minutes ahead of the rest of the world; whoever did not readily grasp this temporal anomaly learned at the cost of $10 per minute. Above all, Lombardi preached pride and mutual esteem, though he never permitted intimacy. Probably the most famous quote from Lombardi's Green Bay epoch came from Tackle Henry Jordan, who said: "He treats us all the same-like dogs." Jordan later added: "To this day, I don't know whether he liked...
Nicknamed "Snake," the sculpture looms massive and masculine, dwarfing everything in sight. Built in two pieces, it has a manhole on the top for workmen to descend inside for repairs and dismantling. Wandering around the piece, Tony recalled with paternal pride the day in 1962 when he completed the original 46-in. model. "As soon as I finished it, I realized the piece had a sense of movement, like a little dragon or a snake," he said. "Then I remembered John McNulty's short story Third Avenue Medicine, in which he describes how bartenders watch for a vein...