Word: esteemed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Since he recognized that "not every action nor every feeling admits of a mean," Aristotle would hardly esteem more highly those who get worked up about nothing than those who get worked up about everything. In fact, if he were updating his polemics today, Aristotle might well find himself saying something like "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue." There was never all that much wrong with Goldwater's famous formulation, except that in the climate of 1964 this wordplay was correctly understood as a winking endorsement...
...clerical workers at Harvard are women, and the unionization drive is in part an outgrowth of the women's movement. A year ago, for example, the Med School organizing committee was, with much the same membership, the Medical Area Women's Group. "Women have risen in their own self-esteem and are no longer willing to be paid shit wages and treated like garbage," Lynn Demler, a Med School Secretary and organizer, said last month...
...Cairo after the October war. Historians will long debate whether or not the Egyptian armies really won a military victory in that war. It is unlikely, though, that they will dispute the notion that the outcome of the war restored to the Arab world a needed measure of self-esteem that had been absent since the humiliating defeat of 1967 and provided a breakthrough to peace negotiations. Nor will they argue that the war made Egypt's Sadat-who had been judged the indecisive, second-rate successor to the great Gamal Abdel Nasser-the most prestigious leader...
Organizers say the sudden urge to unionize among the largely female clerical and technical workers is less a reaction to the spring's printers strike than an expression of the women's movement. They say that the women's movement has given the workers a sense of self-esteem that would not tolerate the allegedly low wages they...
Though Nixon's campaign might stem his slide in public approval, it could hardly raise him significantly from his recent lows. Two polls taken just before he launched his public appearances showed that he was still slipping in esteem. Gallup recorded a two-point drop in the public's approval of Nixon's performance, to a new low of 25%, while Harris reported a three-point slide in its rating, to 26%. Even the President's support among political conservatives appeared to be fading (see story page 15). Conservative Columnist George F. Will wrote that...