Word: priding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Available for intermittent use is the Tigers' real pride, Danny Sachs. Possessing tremendous speed, though prone to all varieties of injuries, Sachs will enter the game when long yardage is imperative. When he's in, the Crimson ends must play at top form to prevent repeated, crushing gains down the sidelines...
Director Helmut Kautner's point is that loneliness and pride make communication well-nigh impossible between people. The seventeen-year-old girl feels she must invent rich relatives, fiancees, pipe dreams, in order to be loved, and these lies set up a terrible barrier between herself and the boy who would love her. He feels too proud to marry a rich girl when he is too poor to support even himself and a duck. Similarly, the married woman thinks she has to go on sleeping with her husband and her other lover so Jacques--soft, revolting Jacques--won't lose...
...color continues to spread, even the relatively colorless New York papers may be forced to join in the parade. All, that is, but one. "We pride ourselves on the appearance of our paper, and we don't want to detract from it," says a spokesman for the paper that will presumably remain the good, grey New York Times...
Chevalier's most tantalizing implication is that Bloch, blind as Oedipus in his pride, believes that only he can control the use and abuse of the superbomb. In this light, Mark Ampter is a human sacrifice to Bloch's God complex. This^ view may be colored by Chevalier's personal resentment (although he claims that "this book was written not with hatred but with love," the novel's underlying tone suggests an ex-worshipper stomping on a fallen idol). But strangely enough, the Atomic Energy Commission came to a very similar conclusion about Oppenheimer...
...Harvard's big selling points is its imposing list of "great men." But it seems that the greater the man, the more unavailable he is to the undergraduate body. Harvard also points with pride to the infinite number and variety of the courses offered in the University. However, the student can take and audit only a very few. Public lectures based on the more general aspects of these courses and delivered by the eminent scholars themselves is a policy that should be continued and expanded. It would give a broader basis to the concept of "general education...