Word: esteemed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perhaps funnier than nice people like to admit. Naturally, when it looks as if the prisoners will win, Reynolds is asked to-and almost does-throw the game. Finally, he turns around and wins it when he realizes what a victory will do for his fellow cons' self-esteem and dignity. Robert Aldrich, the hell-for-leather director of items like The Dirty Dozen, fills the sound track with the crunch of every bone, the sight track with every splat of blood he can manage-terrible stuff, but viscerally stimulating. In a simple-minded way, it is also very...
...President. Ford could still recoup some credibility by finding another good press secretary. At present, the job is being filled by terHorst's deputy, Jack Hushen, 39, a former Justice Department information officer. Hushen's mess-ups at press briefings last week and his low esteem among White House correspondents have probably disqualified him from getting the post. One name known to be on a list of contenders for the job is retiring Pentagon Spokesman Jerry Friedheim, who alienated many reporters with his stonewall handling of U.S. military actions in Southeast Asia...
Long held in relatively low esteem by the U.S. public, Congress is now enjoying a new post-Nixon popularity...
There's not much need for a lot of the competition that pervades Harvard life, but it's easy to see why it goes on and why students accept it. When people come here, they've probably already fallen into the habit of drawing their self-esteem through their achievements and not anything more abstract. So at Harvard, an achievement-oriented place, people stay within their old patterns of self-identification. Harvard is the kind of place where you can feel more like a person if you're in Social Studies, say, than...
...profession has suffered a more painful drop in public esteem than accounting; in recent years accountants have been regularly criticized for failing to expose corporate shenanigans, and have been sued for allegedly certifying misleading company earnings reports. Four SEC complaints have been filed against Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., onetime auditor of such tarnished firms as Penn Central and National Student Marketing and a giant of the profession (it recorded worldwide billings of $370 million in 1973). Last week Walter E. Hanson, 48, a former railroad accountant and senior partner (chief executive) of Peat, Marwick since 1965, moved to restore confidence...