Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fortunately, the humiliation will hurt little more than Harvard's pride. Boston College, with which the Crimson is jockeying for fourth-place seeding for next month's ECAC playoffs, was demolished, 8-1, by Boston University last night at the Eagles' McHugh Forum. All Harvard has to do is defeat Yale twice and Princeton once within the next week-which it should do without excessive trouble-and it will edge out the Eagles for the home ice advantage, although it will most likely have to beat them to advance further in the tournament...
After listening to the resolution which stated the council "herewith expresses its pride in the manifold accomplishments of this able administrator, talented author, dedicated teacher, and LOYAL son of Harvard. Councillor Thomas Coates commented. I almost expected the end of this resolution to read somewhere near the pearly gates. I have trouble believing President Pusey's still alive...
...want to go back. The old structure simply is not geared to the 20th century woman." One sideline booster is her 84-year-old mother. After watching Anita explain the order's new directions on television last week, Mrs. Marie Caspary -with just a touch of quiet pride -spoke her judgment: "You've come a long way, Baby...
...autobiography is excruciating when he recalls going to dances in the 1930s, learning to sip punch and stand around as if he did not want to dance. The devastating need of blacks to restore pride in their color and race still flames forth in Malcolm X's comment on the tragic folly of doting black parents who favored whichever child in the family was the palest. When, at age 14, Malcolm was told-like many other gifted blacks-that he should think of carpentry instead of law, he turned his back on the whole white world...
...other hands, Who Cares? could have been nothing but return to camp. Balanchine has too much pride in his own past and too much love for the American stage for that. In structure, the solos, pas de deux and dances for the corps are almost chastely classical; yet Broadway keeps breaking in. After a serene, supple lift, two dancers will suddenly embrace in a highly stylized foxtrot. A sequence of pirouettes will lead into a flashy split or a sensual side step. The incongruities somehow blend into a consistent display of Balanchine's mastery of forms. Who Cares...