Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Years," one of Barclay's most majestic numbers, begins as a take-off on blind American optimism; through the sincerity of Rod Skinner's rendition, however, it becomes a moving affirmation of the need to go on believing in America's future, despite the scars of "bigotry, of pride...
...talents for mimicry and mime relieve a good deal of the script's bittersweet sentimentality and soft-core cynicism. Even evoked as burlesque, the brooding comic spirit of Dante is not suited to the underworld of show business, where the principal sin is usually self-delusion rather than pride...
...most disquieting passages in this collection are in the letters that Steinbeck wrote on politics. In one letter, he compared President Kennedy to Launcelot, and in 1965 he wrote President Johnson, "You have placed your name among the great ones in history. And I take great pride in the fact that you are my President." Concerning the war in Vietnam, he told Johnson aide Jack Valenti in April 1965, "I wish the bombing wasn't necessary, but I suspect that our people on the ground know more about that than I do." Less than a year later, however, he went...
...Health faculty with the proportions of women and minorities in the University as a whole. The School notes that "...the School of Public Health falls slightly behind the University as a whole in the appointment of minority group members to its teaching staff" and goes on to note with pride the proportion of women in the school's faculty exceeds that of the University as a whole. One wonders if the School of Public Health would similarly define health as "not being as sick as the next person." In comparing itself with the rest of the University, the School...
There were plenty of medals to go around. In the men's giant slalom, Switzerland preserved its skiing pride with a gold and silver from Heini Hemmi, 27, and Ernst Good, 26. The Canadians picked up a surprising gold medal when Kathy Kreiner, 18, won the women's giant slalom. Britain won its only medal in figure skating-but it was an elegant one. Transforming Olympic Stadium into a stage for his lyrical ballet on ice, John Curry, 26, won the men's figure-skating title with as smooth and expressive a free-style exhibition...