Word: esteeming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Henry Adams once described the passive role of Harvard in his famous judgment that the college was good only because it did him less harm than any other way he might have spent four years. Such a doctrine is, however, bad for the educator's self-esteem, and can scarcely be the basis of an explicit theory. Today, with four of every five seniors headed for graduate study, Harvard has become the world's largest prep school. Like any prep school, it is filled with students who are essentially reduced to the rank of adolescents, because their graduation will mark...
...Stalin in the '30s gave F.D.R. ambiguous praise as "one of the strongest figures among all the captains of the contemporary capitalist world." But the Soviet press was generally scornful of the New Deal, occasionally deriding Roosevelt as "a bourgeois politician," and Roosevelt hit bottom in Soviet esteem when he condemned the Russian invasion of Finland in 1939 and placed a "moral embargo" on U.S. sale of planes and other war materials to the U.S.S.R...
...much as anything, membership in the club means membership in an infrangible fraternity of one's peers. The club offers the inestimable satisfaction of bestowing and receiving esteem. This, we venture to suggest, is not snobbery. It is the essence of fellowship...
...citizens of Buffalo, though not celebrated for love of art, have in their midst a museum envied throughout the U.S. Contemporary artists hold few places in higher esteem than the Albright Art Gallery. And there are few men for whom the dealers of Manhattan. Paris or London have more respect than its principal patron, Seymour H. Knox, 63. A small (5 ft. 5 in.), peppery man who is a crack polo and court tennis player as well as a director of six major companies (Marine Midland Trust Co., F. W. Woolworth), Knox is a born enthusiast-and his chief enthusiasm...
...Binger attributed the college girl's desire for an affair to a need for security engendered by social and academic pressure. Dr. Binger explains that the college girl is plagued by depression resulting from fears of inadequacy. She comes to fear comment or criticism and seeks security in the esteem of a young man whom she admires, and whose approbation hopefully will offset her self-doubt and feelings of insufficiency...