Word: esteeming
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...patterns. A self-exile from Nazi Germany, he trooped to this country with the giant company of expatriate European intellectuals ten years ago and now heads the Department of Architecture. In 1947 only Frank Lloyd Wright and possibly France's Le Corbusier rank ahead of him in the general esteem...
...bring peace to a land thus split by doubt and fear and bordered by its neighbors' militant hatreds? The British, who had come to Greece as liberators, had failed. The presence even of a friendly, homesick, token-size British army hurt Greek philotimo (the kind of sensitive self-esteem that makes a Greek waiter deliberately dawdle if he is harshly addressed, and a Greek day laborer feel equal to his King). Others besides Communists hummed the popular Communist ditty: "British, Go from Our Land!" In Athens last week, a fashionable young lady remarked: "It is fashionable to dislike...
Every musician who remained in Germany or occupied Europe to perform there must face before all other charges that of being a leader, looked up to by his listeners, a leader who proved unworthy of the esteem placed in him. To overlook the past records of such men simply because one likes to hear their music is unforgivable...
...rail securities sold at competitive bidding, thus knocking Morgan, Stanley & Co. and other New York bond houses which had fought to bar Young from Alleghany out of much fat business once given them by friendly railroads. By then Young's sandy hair had turned white and his self-esteem had become somewhat Napoleonic...
...spiritual role in the world. He has proclaimed it thus: "America has been, and must ever continue to be, under God, the Beacon of Liberty . . . the proof that humanity can live in mutual respect based on the law of God, voiced through the conscience of man, and in mutual esteem, based on the responsibility of democratic life." Cardinal Spellman, the closest U.S. friend of Pope Pius XII, is as American as an apple dumpling - a onetime trolley-car conductor who now holds an airplane pilot's license. During the war, as Military Vicar to the U.S. Armed Forces...