Word: esteems
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spirit. A fatally casual adventure-in-excess has done to America, he argues, what crossing the Rhine did to the Roman Empire in 6 A.D., what invading Holland did to Spain in the 16th century. The final consequence is a "devaluation in national identity," a collective loss in self-esteem that has left Americans profoundly confused about just what to do next...
...Newsday (1967-70) and author of the 1971 book Listening to America. The most engaging and refreshing thing about him is that, at 39, he regards himself as he does the nation - as open and unfinished - and is not yet ready to wrap himself in the cellophane of self-esteem and present himself as a finished media product...
...wrote a bestselling attack on the old prejudices called Warnings Against Rightist Culture. Three years ago, he founded the Japan Lefthanders League to encourage lefthanders to come out of the closet. Today the league's 1,500 members receive a monthly bulletin to boost their self-esteem and remind them of such famous lefties as Michelangelo and Harry Truman...
Those sharp setbacks came as Nixon seemed to be making considerable progress in reversing his disastrous slide in public esteem, and indeed White House aides are eagerly awaiting the next round of opinion polls measuring his standing after the televised Florida press conference. His scrappy performances had won wide praise from his audiences. One somewhat bizarre episode after the conference, in which he seemed to have playfully slapped a friendly bystander (see THE PRESS), hardly distracted from this. Though Nixon kept promising more evidence of innocence rather than providing it after he had met with the Governors, Oregon...
After a good deal of family argument, little Pablo was marched off by his mother to Barcelona, to study at the Municipal School of Music. In those days, cellists were held in no high esteem. "Ordinarily, I had as soon hear a bee buzzing in a stone jug," wrote George Bernard Shaw in 1894. It was Casals' destiny to change all that, and he began early. At that time, student cellists were taught to bow with their arms close to their sides, even holding a book under their armpits as a method of instruction. Casals tried bowing more freely...