Word: prided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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ROCK/JAZZ: "Son of Pop Chops"; Craig Spector, guitar; "It Don't Mean a Thing..."; Sam Steffke, piano, George Pierce, trumpet, and the Pride of Back Bay Big Band; Berklee Performance Center; Monday...
...well as an occasional "zounds" or "sweet-patootie". A cultural sponge that oozes erudition and arcana, he recalls Yeats in the same breath that he expounds on an ancient tooth powder advertisement. No matter what guise he shows up in, Perelman's persona is a curious mixture of gallic pride, English cynicism, and mostly, Yiddish fatalism. He is a foil who ventures quixotically into the world and then returns, each time, to testify that it is far more looney than...
...buses and began basic training together. They shared barracks (on alternate floors), mess halls and bivouacs, and a few occasionally made clandestine love in the laundry room or the latrines. When the six weeks of marching, spitting, polishing, obstacle coursing and weapons training were over, and the tears, exhaustion, pride and exhilaration forgotten, Writer Helen Rogan asked their commanding officer, a woman, what differences she had noted between the men and women. Said she: "The men overloaded the washing machines because they didn't know how to use them...
...muscle spasms. One week they are ordered to tuck in their blouses to look like the males. The next week they are ordered not to, to avoid attracting male attention. Blamed as a group for the failure of any one of them, most still show a stubborn patriotic pride...
...reading this article you must have played in one of the two House football games which took place yesterday, because not a heck of a lot was riding on them except--as Knute Rockne would say--pride...