Word: esteeming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crisis of communication in Sessions' music. He would love nothing better than an audience ovation. But, stubborn New England descendant of Mayflower pilgrims that he is, he refuses to bid for easy success with the latest fashions. For that reason, he has had to settle for the high esteem of colleagues and critics, and the reputation of a Zeus on a cloud-cloaked Olympus doing his own thing, virtually daring the multitudes to like...
...problem of alienation at the Law School extends beyond the problems of a disaffected minority. It may extend as well to the vast majority of students who are not in the top handful in class rank or who lack the social acceptability which members of the Choate Club esteem so highly. Roger Lowenstein...
...only thing I remember about Captain Johnston's office was the book on his desk--The Marginal Man and the Military. His first question smacked of soc rel 10 esteem busting...
...eleven essays, The Dissenting Academy (Pantheon, $6.95), edited by Historian Theodore Roszak of California State College at Hayward. In the lead essay, Roszak contends that professors, pampered by their own rising affluence and coddled by Government grants, have let their research and teaching turn sterile. They gain no professional esteem from lively teaching, find no joy in pursuing a social cause, even lack loyalty to their own schools. Their main aim is to score points within their department or professional society. "Professional politicking and scholarly publication are all that academic success requires," claims Roszak...
Europe's impressionists and old masters have been claiming high prices for years, but the most recent success story in the art market deals with a contingent of sleepers who, like Rip Van Winkle, are returning to public esteem after a century of obscurity. American 19th century painting, from the works of such frontier reporters as George Caleb Bingham, whose pictures today bring as high as $250,000, to the early 20th century cityscapes of the Ashcan School, is enjoying a remarkable revival. A Hudson River landscape by Frederick Church that sold for $3,500 in the 1950s went...