Word: esteems
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...must deal with black history long enough to get psychological self-esteem and some sense of self-appreciation, but we must move immediately into an analysis of the black present and see it as colonialism built on economic prerogatives rather than moral prerogatives and then spend most of our energy on the black future. And black studies should study the nature of the enemy, not just the nature of the brother...
...Those born after the war show little interest in the Nazi era and, naturally, accept no responsibility for it. Those between 30 and 50, says Historian Joachim Fest, are "the generation of self-reproach." Many of them insist that Hitler accomplished some good-reviving the economy, building national self-esteem and cracking class barriers-but they concede that his achievements were more than canceled out by the demonic evils of Nazism. But many of those over 50, who remember the humiliation after World War I and the chaos of the Weimar Republic, maintain that Hitler's positive accomplishments outweigh...
...depends heavily on political processes and its prestige and moral force to work its will. Its funds come from Congress. Muscle to compel compliance with court decisions comes from the Executive Branch. On highly charged issues, the court's real power can be measured by the degree of esteem in which it is held by society at any given moment...
Attacks on the court, particularly by Wallace and Nixon during the 1968 campaign, lowered that esteem. To be caught in a continuing election-year crossfire can only make its position more vulnerable. A number of conservatives have been talking about impeaching William O. Douglas for ideas that many regard as radical. Though impeachment is a congressional prerogative, Agnew in the CBS interview last week tied the rejection of Carswell and Haynsworth to Douglas' fitness. He suggested that "we take a look" at Douglas' views and then "see whether they are compatible with the position he holds...
...world view on the assumption that all other human beings are coarse and mediocre. A dramatic rendering of Tocqueville's Recollections would have just as many pitfalls as Rolfe's Hadrian the Seventh. Rolfe the "religious fanatic" leaves everyone else in the backwash of his own verbiage and self-esteem-ergo, they are mediocrities first, last and always. Curiously enough, Luke in his dramatic handling takes the fantasy at face value and glorifies the "mediocrities" without tracing their source in Rolfe's mind...