Word: esteemed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...innumerable articles-he has never been ranked higher than third or fourth among his peers in Victorian England, after Dickens, George Eliot and probably Thackeray. Readers, however, have been kinder, and Trollope has always enjoyed an enthusiastic following. During World War II, for example, he ranked first in the esteem of English readers, and Londoners took him down to the Tubes to help them forget the German bombs exploding above. Trollope sales rose then in the U.S. as well, and for a time Barchester Towers and The Last Chronicle of Barset were as hot -well, almost as hot-as black...
...majority of parents are dubious about the care in day-care centers, and esteem for elementary schools is low. Four out of ten parents do not believe that schools can be counted on to teach reading and writing...
Eugene O'Neill is a prime example of the roller-coaster ride of reputation. After his popular vogue in the '20s he went into two decades of neglect. Restored to critical approval and public favor in the mid-'50s, he began to mount an Everest of esteem which most of his plays cannot remotely scale. What is wrong with Anna Christie? Just about everything. With the daintiness of a dinosaur, the play, first produced in 1921, wallows in the goo of sentimentality, quavers with the palsy of moral priggishness, and resolves itself in a bogus happy ending...
...clear, after all, that the Indians have some valid claim on the national conscience. They deserve above all else a chance to reclaim the identity, dignity, pride and esteem that have too often been taken away from them. Indeed, the mood of the Indians suggests that the recovery of such intangibles is not a small item in their renaissance goals. In the land cases, the Indians' willingness to settle out of court, even with the law on their side, forces one to wonder whether the stunning size of the claims has not been intended mainly to arrest the attention...
...does so much honor and self-esteem hinge on this aspect of men's daily lives? The late Marshall Hodgson, a noted Orientalist, writes that this situation often obtains "when there are few other sources of assured status than sheer masculinity. Presumably in a society where social status on the basis of class was relatively precarious, sensitivity about a man's honor was reinforced...