Word: priding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...music establishment as an "outlaw"-a renegade, a troublemaker who wrote interesting songs but would never fuse his raw performing talents. Then six years ago, Willie bucked the system by leaving Nashville for Austin, Texas, where he took charge of a movement that made outlaw a term of defiant pride. Along with such congenial spirits as Waylon Jennings, Billy Joe Shaver and Jerry Jeff Walker, he fashioned a spare, linear style with a heavy rock beat that reached an audience far broader than the country faithful, mainly by appealing to long-haired rock fans...
Such grudging language achieves a cumulative power. Markus has a painterly sense of detail, building up scenes with a deliberate eye for the nuances of her characters' gestures and speech. Her vignettes of Camp Rose Lake, lingerie stores and Miami condominiums evoke a world where pride and purpose survive only by virtue of a resilient will. - James Atlas
...Texan who spent the summer studying there, I found your article on New York [Aug. 21] exhilarating. It touched me and, oddly, left me with a feeling of pride for a city that isn't, by birth, mine. That, perhaps, is New York's most seductive charm: in one way or another, it belongs to anyone who wishes to claim...
...outcome. Mostly, they ratify agreements that have already been worked out in intense negotiations by lower-level officials. Often even the concluding communiques are drafted before the parties formally take their seats. This tradition is designed to avoid the dangers of high-level misunderstandings and wounded national pride. But Camp David is unique; a high U.S. official calls it a "virginal experience." It is convening with very little joint preparation and no preliminary agreement. It lacks even a detailed agenda. Instead, as one of the participants remarked, "we're banking a great deal on chemistry leading to an evolution...
...convicted. "After three or four continuances of a case," says Patrick Healy, the executive director of the National District Attorneys Association, "unless you're really a devoted witness, you'll kiss it off. After all, what's in it for you? This business of civic pride goes so far. And the smart defendant and the smart defense lawyer will delay a case to death...