Word: self-doubt
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...European's compulsive fascination with what was once called the American Experiment often translates itself into harsh criticism. At a time of so much American self-doubt, one European, however, offers a generously sympathetic vision. French Author-Critic Jean-François Revel has taken measure of America in stress and has found there hope not only for the U.S. but for the rest of the world. In his new book, Ni Marx Ni Jesus (Neither Marx nor Jesus), to be published in the U.S. this fall by Doubleday under the title The New American Revolution, Revel argues that a "revolution...
Being a good parent also requires preventing anti-black feelings in black children. When parents counsel "Never be ashamed of your color" and then speak of only light-skinned Negroes as pretty, they "plant seeds of self-doubt, conflict and identity confusion." To promote racial dignity, parents should "emphasize a spirit of community with all black people" so that children will know that they are not alone...
...states, "their concern with how we are going to survive as a nation, whether our institutions are going to fall apart at the seams. This year the basic issue is confidence in the country. We need a reaffirmation of faith-we have a tendency to become paralyzed by self-doubt. There was a time when it was the conservatives who were utterly predictable. Now the old fogies are the liberals who have lived too long with their verities...
...American embassy is going through the throes of reorganization and self-doubt. Located in former servants' quarters behind a modest villa occupied by Chargé d'Affaires Lloyd M. Rives, the embassy is in a sullen mood. Columnist Joseph Kraft had written a devastating article about the military attache, Colonel William Pietsch, 47, accusing him of not knowing what is going on. That same weekend, after only a month or so in the country, Pietsch was hastily pulled back to the Pentagon...
...Kahn's production. Roberta Max-well has softened the character of Helena from the Women's Liberation aggressiveness the play wright probably intended. Miss Maxwell is pert and pretty; and she introduces into her demeanor touches of self-doubt that make her a warmer and more sympathetic person and take the edge off her duplicitous scheming. When she first appears before the King she does not curtsy but instead prostrates herself for an unconscionable length of time before the throne. Shaw would not have liked that. Coleridge proclaimed that Helena is Shakespeare's "loveliest character...