Word: esteems
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...might help slow his slide in public esteem. It was hard to see how it could be reversed. Perhaps irrevocably, he seemed to have moved past the limit of what vast segments of the nation will tolerate in its President. The overworked tactic of blaming the press could not obscure the fact that much of the public perceived Nixon's decapitation of Cox and the Justice Department (widely called "the Saturday Night Massacre") as an attack on justice and the rule...
...Federal government in Washington is not usually regarded with much esteem, and several people tell Cohen that it has a damaging effect on private enterprise. Peacock is especially irate at the pollution control devices which the government says he must install in his cannery to prevent organic waste from being discharged into...
...satisfied a profound need for self-renewal. One alumni officer may have explained this feeling when he remarked that alumni are held to be dull, boring, finished. By giving them for a short time the intellectual challenge they faced in undergraduate days, A.C. may have revived some self-esteem...
...figuring your self-esteem on little else than male-funded returns means that you are handicapped in loving yourself. You have to do it vicariously through men instead. It is a servile position and servility means degradation. Depressing your ego, your healthy selfishness, to fortify a man's takes shape as a self-hatred. It is being held in contempt and squeezing that role for every gambler's gold ounce it is worth...
...freedom of the press does not exist for the private enjoyment and self-esteem of journalists but to keep people-even Presidents-informed. Watergate could be a turning point, after several years of Government hostility and harassment, toward a renewed national perception of why a fully independent press (with its abundant faults and excesses) is essential to the American system...