Word: esteemed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...League students' high expectations often contribute to the disappointment they feel when they come to college, Catlin adds. "If their sources of self-esteem are narrowed, then you have conditions for suicide." Harvard has up to four suicides a year, according to Catlin. One student has taken his own life this year, while two committed suicide last year. Catlin says that persons who are considering suicide often give clues about their emotional state, as when "people start talking about dying, start giving away their possessions...
...miles a week, often jogging his five final commuter miles from Boston's North Station to his office near Harvard Square. On weekends he competes in 10-km road races and regularly finishes among the top three or four runners in his age group. "That feeds my self-esteem," says Bethell, who maintains a lean 5-ft. 11-in., 160-lb. silhouette. Even more satisfying, he feels that he is healthier today than...
...distribution of knowledge, skills, and exposure to an aggressive and competitive spirit is fundamental to any group's success in society," Howard said. Howard urged intellectuals to foster personal development, self-esteem and constructive attitudes toward the family and marriage...
...Jumbotron video screen, so the back pews can catch the preacher's every gesture. Schuller's sermons, taxing to neither spirit nor intellect, owe as much to psychology as to Scripture. They are peppered with greeting-card aphorisms for seekers of happiness and self-esteem. "Coping and hoping." "Turn your scars into stars." The cross is "a minus turned into a plus." Beyond that, his crystalline Gospel aims at a historic shift, purging Christendom of what Schuller sees as centuries of ensnarement in negative thinking. By preaching sin and judgment, he argues, the clergy "can be, quite accidentally and unintentionally...
...abstract expressionism. Its artists, we have been told ad nauseam, shifted the focus of modern art from Paris to New York; Moses-like, they led American art from provincial darkness into the radiance of history, opening nothing less than a new chapter in the epic of American self-esteem, and so on, and so forth. So much money and institutional clout have been poured into and around the pyramid that it now seems as fixed a historical construct as that of Cheops. Nevertheless, it has not commemorated all the artists equally. Kline is the proof...