Word: esteeming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appear as something, to appear as something greater perhaps than one actually was; the desire to play a role for the sake of playing a role, and to be seen by others as playing it; a desire to compel others to associate themselves with the ritual of self-esteem and self-glorification that was now becoming a regular feature of the rhetoric of American public life...
...ranking Republican estimates that 22 of the 25 G.O.P. Gov ernors think he would make the best candidate the party could put up. Jack Kennedy admitted after his eyelash victory over Nixon in 1960 that Rocky might have beaten him. With Lyndon Johnson in low esteem among many Democrats and among the independents, who now comprise 27% of U.S. voters (v. 46% for the Democrats, 27% Republicans), Rockefeller could probably collect more of their votes than any other Republican...
...Harvard Study, that from Yale found dissatisfaction to be much more lent among the psychiatric patient. We might not be surprised to find some depression early in college because of the mourning involved in the break from home. Also we might expect some depression due to loss in self-esteem when students meet stiff competition at college. Yet these depressions should be transient, from a situational and development point of view. That they are transient is a hypothesis that should be test by following students, like those the present project, into adult life and determining whether or not adjustment mechanisms...
...theme is one of withdrawal. Data from Yale, the University of Western Ontario, and Harvard show lack of friends, nonparticipation in activities, or living apart from college facilities are more frequent in the psychiatric group. Withdrawal and aloneness could be associated with depression, with suspiciousness, or with low self-esteem and low feelings of competency. For whatever reason, those who are uneasy about dealing with people are more likely to need psychological help...
...novel in the form of a memoir" is nostalgic enough to revive the lost magic of the 1930s for all who grew up with "Ovaltine Birthstone & Good Luck Rings . . . Joe Louis . . . black Fords with NRA stickers . . . tops from Ralston boxes to send away as a mark of esteem for Tom Mix." Novelist Gold (Therefore Be Bold) writes with fine irony, a strong sense of the absurd, and at times with the cynical insight accumulated by a perceptive man in 43 years of watching the shell game...