Word: esteems
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...good. After thousands of years of orgies with nymphs, Macedonian virgins, satyrs, hairy-eared sailors and lots of olive oil, Dionysus has turned 50. His hair has thinned, and what's left hangs like dry moss. Ariadne tells him that people drink to compensate for low self-esteem, and he says he has plenty of self-esteem; he's a god. Not after 50, you're not, is her chilling answer...
Besides skewing group rankings, this policy also makes many more students more grade-conscious. Those students who are concerned about their group ranking (for graduate schools, the job market, or even self-esteem) have a strong incentive to make the minus cut-off point. For such students, the difference between, say, a B- and a C+ becomes much more important than it would be under the more logical 4.0 system used at most colleges and universities...
...liberals invented toleration as the alternative to persecution for heresy. I may disapprove of what you believe about God, they said, but your belief doesn't "pick my pocket or break my leg." This is not good enough for today's liberals. They want my precious sense of self-esteem to be respected. They demand that others be sensitive to me--what am I saying?--that I be sensitive to others. They insist that the government be given the task of insuring that this happens. They believe, as Cass Sunstein, an expert witness on the other side of the Colorado...
...cover), it seems to me to be reclaiming girlhood as a time of empowerment, before the heterosex drive kicks in and spoils everything. (If I'm right, it's a strategy psychologists have validated: Carol Gilligan and others have shown that girls in America have much more self-esteem before puberty than after...
...little bit dumb at some point during our academic careers. But a whole group of people willing to admit dumbness? Are they somehow stupider than we are? How about now, November--no doubt they've been bombarded by horrendous problem sets and expos drafts. How's their self-esteem doing now? We were curious...