Word: self-doubt
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...that never doubted its invincibility and its innocence, as if those two were one, should never be that awfully certain of itself again. Who can quarrel with Halberstam here? The danger may be that, given the notorious wide swings of the American pendulum, the next phase will be corrosive self-doubt and excessive withdrawal from the world. With luck, though, the loss of hubris may lead to a new realism without fatigue or despair...
...chief interviewer on many of the programs, Pahopin has his own "Uncle Andy" show, which features Parker youngsters dancing, singing and-at times-complaining about their parents on-camera. A 5-ft. 10-in. black-haired extravert whose previous show-biz experience is nil, Pahopin suffered a twinge of self-doubt when first offered the job, but is now having a splendid time. "If I have to keep on doing five nights a week, I'll do it," he says. "But I don't want to take the spotlight from other tenants too much. Overexposure can be detrimental...
...plan to take Nat Sci 3 as a sophomore. And if you find chemistry hard you may well need to strengthen your math background and should consider Math Ar. The worst of all possible worlds is when a freshman loses all his self-confidence. Freshman year is a rough time of adjustment, self-doubt, etc.; and work in the sciences is best deferred until a rough period of adjustment has passed...
...movement that often equates male sexuality with rape -sometimes seeing rape symbolically as the distillation of the normal male sexual attitude. Says Adelson: "As any clinician knows, these days the problem in male sexuality lies in the opposite direction, not in phallic megalomania but rather in sexual diffidence and self-doubt...
...scarcely youthful. The sexual element is assuredly present in Shakespeare but it lies in a middle-aged fear of impotence, not in Finch's youthful assertion of virility. The Tynan-Polanski Macbeth has all the ambition and cruelty of the Shakespeare an creation, but there is none of the self-doubt. A whole vital dimension, the fear of personal failure, is lost to the character. Finch's Macbeth is finally adolescent--petulant, introverted, guilt-ridden. Similarly, Francesca Annis's Lady Macbeth is pale and lovely sentimental; not cold-blooded, hardly monstrous. In an early central scene, her persuasion of Macbeth...