Word: priding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With nothing at stake but pride, the Harvard men's soccer team defeated Penn 4-3 on Saturday at Ohiri Field to close its 1999 season...
...This mix of jealousy and wounded pride proves a dangerous intoxicant; Bartelby later rebukes God, drunk with self-importance. It is this egotism that is God's foe, growing stronger with every ill-conceived rationalization Bartelby spews, until it is of Luciferian proportions. Not until the theophany of the last scene does the sight of the kind, matriarchal God reminds us that Bartelby's self-deification is something other than prideit is frustration with the fact that God loves him differently than She loves man. And we feel for Bartelby,, who is at last a soulful child, vying...
...York's hegemony is especially overwhelming, the resulting insecurity leads to Boston's misguided attempts to imitate or to compare itself to New York. Such attempts inevitably fall flat. This is unfortunate, because these gestures are intended as expressions of the Boston art community's justified optimism and pride: they just come out all wrong. In the photograph A Great Day in Boston, there are 810 beaming Boston visual artists. Behind all those goofy banners on Harrison Ave., there are three excellent commercial galleries and two lively non-profit spaces. The commercial galleries of Boston often show wonderful works...
...were slow all first half and weren't winning balls that were ours," Wheaton said. "We said that we have great pride in ourselves a program, and when we step on the field we show the world how hard we have worked and how much it matters to us. We didn't feel like we'd done that, and it was our goal to do just that in the second half--I think...
While the purveyors of this voodoo medicine today point with pride to the fact that most U.S. medical schools, influenced by research grants and public opinion, have launched courses in alternative medicine, the result will not be what they expect. Legitimate medical schools--and most of them are--will dispassionately dissect the alternatives and evaluate their effectiveness. In so doing, they will breed new generations of doctors who will urge patients to be skeptical about false claims and bogus science...