Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wonder, college-kid-guilt seeping through you cold as rain, how much you can spare from your wallet. Oh God! You can't really...Coop bill, phone bill, that record you promised your roommate, boyfriend's birth-day present--oh well, you console yourself, it would only hurt his pride to be offered money...
...very much. Russell should try fishing around for a solid script next time. Rudolf Nureyev is the subject for Russell's current experiment, and the results are no cause for pride. Admittedly, Nureyev took on a task more daunting then Daltrey's. While the rock star merely had to portray a deaf, dumb and blind parody of himself in a rock opera that his group had created. Nureyev was asked to bring to life one of the all-time classic leading men in cinema history, a giant of an era that the ballet virtuoso never knew. The role demands...
While tragedy moves from sanity toward self-destruction, comedy moves from self-delusion toward preservative sanity. In his pride, the tragic hero overreaches human limits and dies. In his folly, the comic hero pounds his head against those limits, is brought to his senses and lives. It is difficult to know which is the less comfortable end - death or self-knowledge - and that is one reason why great tragedy and great comedy are so close...
...Dave Johnson retrieved a high snap from center on a punt attempt, found an opening down the left sideline and sloshed 75 yards for the game's lone touchdown, more than just Harvard's talent advantage was wiped out. So was its undefeated season, and so was its pride...
...focus of both Wyatt's pride and Letteri's ire is the internal reorganization of the Harvard force begun in 1975 by David L. Gorski, former chief of University police. Gorski, a "scientific cop" with a tough-guy image, came to Harvard in late 1974 intending to remake the University force in his own image. Drawing on his municipal experience, Gorski instituted a computer system to analyze crime statistics, a specialized crime-prevention unit, and a special task force assigned to high-crime areas. The new system, however, disrupted the traditional union method of assigning shifts according to seniority, rather...