Word: proudly
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Much of "Let's Get Small" is very funny, but He doesn't make fun of society directly but packs his stories with non sequiturs and relates incidents that could never happen. He begins the Grandmother's Song with an innocent verse that any matriarch would be proud to hear her offspring sing...
...find no argument with Palau's views or crusades, but I do wish to point out that the novelist you quote, Rómulo Gallegos, is not Colombian. He was born in 1884 in Caracas, and we Venezuelans are very proud of him for many reasons. He was not only one of the great Latin American writers, but also a great teacher and our first constitutionally elected President...
...white fences and grazing cattle. In Van Tonder's home, his small study is crammed with books in Afrikaans on the Great Trek and the Boer War. In the Afrikaner tradition, extra places are always set at meal times for neighbors who may unexpectedly call. Van Tonder is proud of his heritage, but worried about his country's future: one of his sons is serving on the Angolan front in the army. Last week TIME Johannesburg Bureau Chief William McWhirter spent a day with the family and filed this report...
...Proud Afrikaner though he is, Van Tonder is scornful of South African policies. "It's a police state," he says. "It's putting my culture into a straitjacket." Van Tonder, who has now joined the right-wing Herstigle Nasionale Partie and is standing as one of their candidates, has had issues of his own personal newsletter, Die Stem (The Call), banned. He believes, perhaps unrealistically, that the old Boer republics-the Transvaal and the Orange Free State-should be left on their own, allowed to preserve their language and culture in the midst of a predominantly black Africa...
Cornell's soccer team emerged from a rough-and-tumble game on Princeton's Poe Field Saturday morning as the proud owners of a 3-1 victory over the Tigers and the 1977 Ivy league championship...