Word: esteemed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...carved his name in his desk drawer. Warmed by their sense of continuity with an opening-day ritual that has changed little in 182 years, the members of the convening 92nd Congress of the United States momentarily buried their deep differences. They basked in the expansive mood of mutual esteem common to those who know that they are about to influence their nation's history...
...danger arises when a child senses that his mother protests too much; if she finds it wonderful to be black, why press the point? Besides, children acquire self-esteem not from words but from love expressed in actions. "No black-pride program," the psychiatrists write, "can repair the damage should we neglect our task of being good parents." That job requires controlling the parents' anti-black prejudice, which is strong in Negroes who are secretly ashamed of their blackness. Poussaint and Comer cite the case of a Government official's wife who preferred her light-skinned...
Whether Zumwalt and his like-minded colleagues in the other services can indeed create a military force that is happy behind the lines and fully effective in combat remains to be seen. Given the current low esteem of the military in much of the nation, they have very little choice but to move in the directions they have chosen. Like so many parts of the American historical experience, this movement, too, is an experiment?risky, unprecedented, but rich with promise. If the U.S. military can significantly reform itself, there is no reason why other less rigid and authoritarian American institutions...
...among blacks as well as whites. In 1967 black soldiers roundly criticized Martin Luther King and Cassius Clay for objecting to the war; today, King, Clay and others like Eldridge Cleaver and Julian Bond, who have been heavy critics of the war, stand highest in their esteem...
...theory has it that a distinguished older president, 55-60, might be able to exert more leadership in the University than a young dynamo-type because his esteem and judgment would be more widely respected and trusted. Although he could only serve until the mandatory retirement age of 66, by that time the University might be more stable and more qualified younger candidates would be available...