Word: prided
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...President Reagan was preparing for the Moscow summit, Michael Dukakis took time away from the campaign trail to conduct a session of his own on Soviet- American relations. Crammed into his corner office at the Massachusetts statehouse was a pride of professors, including Madeleine Albright, Joseph Nye, Robert Murray, Marshall Goldman and Robert Legvold. Also present was Senator Bill Bradley, foremost of the congressional foreign policy mavens Dukakis has come to respect. In front of the Governor was a 50-page briefing book. All seemed set for a dry but dutiful seminar...
...open to reveal opposing armies about to pour onto the stage. The most impressive coup de theatre, however, belongs to Star Tim Pigott-Smith, a specialist in complex villains. He invades the bedroom of a sleeping princess, robs and molests her while voicing a cascading confusion of emotions -- first pride, then shame, then lust, then greed -- with the naked horror of a man facing his true nature for the first time...
...Francisco, and when the Republicans gather in New Orleans next month, they will bring with them the usual arsenal of portable computers, cellular telephones and fax machines. But this year the Democrats, eager to portray themselves as the party that champions economic growth through high technology, seem to find pride and political symbolism in the fact that their convention will significantly out tech the Republicans'. "We just really knocked ourselves out to make sure we ended up with a state-of-the-art information system," says Arleigh Greenblatt, general manager of the convention and the man credited with the Democrats...
...word is sensibilidad. It refers to a quality of temperament easier to recognize than define, a spacious basket of subtleties: strength without roughness, pride tempered with humor, a hint of festival, a tinge of tragedy. Like the monolithic term Hispanic, it tends to blur the individual colors of each distinct Latin culture, and yet artists, designers, actors and authors from all corners of Latin culture resort to the word when others fail to capture just what is most infectious about a Latin sense of style...
...come from an expansive, an intimate, culture that has long been judged second-rate by the U.S. Out of pride as much as affection, we are reluctant to give up our past. Our notoriety in the U.S. has been our resistance to assimilation. The guarded symbol of Hispanic-American culture has been the tongue of flame: Spanish. But the remarkable legacy Hispanics carry from Latin America is not language -- an inflatable skin -- but breath itself, capacity of soul, an inclination to live. The genius of Latin America is the habit of | synthesis. We assimilate...