Word: esteems
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...finest hour. Foster, writes Rosenbaum, "caught the crest of the wave of media fever that engulfed mid-Seventies America. Woodward and Bernstein brought down a President; Redford and Hoffman enshrined the heroic reporters as symbolic successors. The entire journalism profession swelled with newly inflated prestige, power and self-esteem." In Rosenbaum's cunning roman à Clay, however, the gleaming knights of the choice tables are less interested in truth and light than drugs and kinky sex, and they are otherwise as morally flawed as the conspirators of the Nixon White House. But then, that is something the folks...
...passed through a difficult apprenticeship, plummeting in public esteem at one point to a 30% favorable rating. He was being regarded at home and abroad as a nice enough fellow but one without much flair for leadership or talent for using the formidable powers of his office. Then Jimmy Carter began to turn things around at Camp David, not during the deservedly acclaimed summit in September with Israel's Menachem Begin and Egypt's Anwar Sadat, but at a far less visible conference in April with Cabinet members and top White House advisers...
...incapable of ending the unrest through military force. Says one U.S. expert: "Even if his army shot 5,000 people and imprisoned another 50,000, the Shah's fate would be sealed. The Shah's best hope, if he wishes to retain any symbolic position of esteem, is to make a dramatic declaration turning over his powers to an interim ruling group of elder statesmen. Otherwise, he faces the slow disintegration of his army and, eventually, his entire country." As of last week, this was one bit of U.S. advice that the Shah did not seem anxious...
...Crimson issue on Wednesday, December 6, 1978, there was an article on the front page entitled: Six-College Study Shows Women Have low Self-Esteem. It reported on a study that showed that women had, on the average, more interest in personal friendships and less ambition for and anticipation of professional success than their male counterparts. Well and good, but the article went on to assert that therefore the women had less self-esteem than...
Indeed, the study may well have shown what the title of the article would indicate, but the authors seek to convince us of this by holding up characteristics that have made American males obnoxious to others and dangerous to themselves, as benchmarks of self-esteem. If the authors really wish to support their claim, rather than assert it as dogma, perhaps studies of incidences of depression or of psychological profiles or even of degree of social interaction with the community would be far better to point...