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...efforts to "destabilize" the regime of Chile's Salvador Allende. But there was a broader, more basic criticism: to many it seemed that Kissinger has dangerously concentrated and personalized the nation's capacity for making foreign policy. Yet he still held the unique esteem of the powers he had to deal with, including the Soviet Union and the Middle Eastern nations; in the U.S. he faced perhaps not a real decline, but simply a more realistic appraisal contrasted with the earlier, exaggerated view of him as a miracle worker...
More subtly, the notion of meritocracy (the idea that a social hierarchy based on supposedly objective qualities is natural) ideologically supports a racist status quo. The ethos of professionalism, while pretending to esteem scholastic excellence, in fact promotes racist ideas, implicit as well as explicit, under the guise of value-free research...
...being gassed in World War I, and Lady spent the rest of her days being a rich, eccentric widow. Late in her life she won the New England regional "forlorn cry" award, popular-novel division: "Oh, I am a vain and foolish woman. Yes, foolish. I have wanted the esteem of the world, and why? Tell me, for what...
...strong-man George Papadopoulos included--to the Aegean island of Kea. But his skittish attitude towards punishment of the leaders and instruments of dictatorship, including known torturers, has drawn sharp criticism from the opposition. He did gain credit as being independent of American influence--and soothed people's self-esteem--by taking Greece out of NATO...
...William Perry, the reason why more and more Radcliffe women are in need of counseling is connected to a change in women's roles. "Within our culture, there is the role differentiation that women can, with self-esteem, be more aware of and thoughful of internal life, and men are supposed to be more extroverted. Stereotypes can affect the degree to which a person feels minded to consult about their inner life...