Word: self-doubt
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...Berlin, suffering from a bout of self-doubt, had written, then written off this pleading ballad (along with another plaint, "How Deep Is the Ocean?"). Then a Berlin associate let megaphone man Rudy Vallee perform it on his radio show. The song was a #1 hit for George Olsen and awarded top-10 perches to versions by Connee Boswell and Ozzie Nelson?s band. In her pop-diva phase, Aretha Franklin had a minor flurry with her single of the song in 1963 - 31 years later...
...Leaming founds her case on a portrait of the First Lady as a woman whose "tormented childhood" had taught her "that her emotional survival depended on her ability to keep the world at a distance" and whose polished reserve hid a core of "crippling insecurity." The source of this self-doubt lay in shame over her parents' ugly divorce and in her mother's relentless criticism of her unusual looks (especially her "kinky hair") and "love of books and learning...
...wouldn’t say that about me if they knew…”? Ever wonder would it be like to be totally known and still completely loved? Beneath the façade of achievement and self-confidence that we put up, so many of us are just hoping that no one will notice the reality of self-doubt and emptiness we feel each...
...thing Bush and Churchill may share. At the times when he was most challenged, and whether he was justified in his sense of self or not (and often he was not), Churchill never knew self-doubt. It seems to rarely stalk Bush. For a man leading the kit-bag-packing troops and a great wide world into a war the like of which it has never known before, that confidence is a useful attribute to have...
...parenting is harder than ever, parents say they don't think they are doing it very well, and lots of people on the sidelines are inclined to agree. But for all the self-doubt, it is still worth asking: Are today's parents really doing such a terrible job? Are kids today actually turning...