Word: self-doubt
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...other hand, the Japanese are bombarded with the same negative images of the U.S. that have deepened America's mood of depression and self-doubt. People watch CNN reporting on the American homeless. They flock to see the gratuitous violence of Die Hard 2. Japanese Playboy, which for years projected an image of the U.S. as a carefree sexual playground, now runs stories about the AIDS epidemic. Japanese newspapers, cribbing from the U.S. press, detail the decline in American educational standards and the growth in the murder rate...
Sexual harassment remains a loaded topic that can rupture friendships and plunge victims into self-doubt. Many people don't understand what it is. Certainly men and women viewing the same incident often disagree on whether anything untoward -- not to mention illegal -- has occurred. Is it ordinary flirtation? Is it old-fashioned earthy humor between friends of opposite sex? No, says Webb. Most men do not sexually harass their co-workers. Those who do are engaging in a power trip that plays on sex; work-related strings are | attached. Says she: "It's really not difficult to understand. You just...
...Turner, who became a millionaire in the billboard business after his family lost its cotton farm in the Depression, was determined to give his son both ambition and the self-doubt that keeps ambitious people going. "He wanted Ted to be insecure because he felt insecurity breeds greatness," Judy Nye Hallisey, Turner's first wife told biographer Roger Vaughan. During World War II, Ed Turner served in the Navy; he brought along his wife and daughter but left behind Ted, age 6, at a boarding school in Cincinnati. Ted's father sent the boy to a military academy from...
...astute enough. Wasinger argues that gays, in publicly declaring how well-adjusted and happy they are, only serve to demonstrate the contrary. He reasons that if they truly were, they would feel no need to state such claims, and that to do so is merely indicative of their self-doubt and their need for "reassurance from others...
Success, and its evil twin self-doubt, moved in around 1980. Each of his children's albums sold more than 200,000 copies, and he and Debi had a huge new house in Toronto. The cafe revolutionary was practicing yoga, reading Gandhi and worrying about playing Russian roulette with nature. "I was scared. I bought organic fruits and vegetables, and I started drinking bottled water because I was concerned about the purity of what...