Word: self-doubt
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...almost nobody knew. His diary, Markings, published three years after his death (TIME, Oct. 23, 1964), surprised even his close associates, for it showed that the brilliant economist, banker, and Secretary-General of the U.N. was a mystical man, unfathomed during his lifetime, constantly tortured by self-doubt and despair...
...formal way. He fails for two reasons. First, the abstractness and detachment of the essay simply do not fit a subject so intensely personal and emotionally complex. It is easy to list, in a neatly ordered manner, the "problems" faced by a white volunteer: guilt, fear, prejudice (both ways), self-doubt, etc. Such a list, however, provides about as much feel for the problems as would a similar list for the "horrors...
...impetuosity and arrogance that made it impossible for Cung to cooperate-and thus did he cause Cung's death? If Amberley had behaved more in accord with his own inner vision of his true Zen self, would the outcome have been different? Crushed between the millstones of public events and his private convictions of failure, Amberley agonizes in self-doubt, comes near to "psychotic" collapse, at length quits public life to find peace in a Zen monastery...
...Richter, a German biographer who has written books on everyone from Ludwig II to Abraham Lincoln. Instead of painting Bismarck black or white-Prussia's royal colors-Richter sees him as an eminently human creature given to occasional flirtation, frequent psychosomatic ailments, fits of weeping, and almost constant self-doubt. For 30 years, the man who first said that "politics is the art of the possible" manipulated the events of a continent simply because he knew how to manipulate people. The Iron Chancellor, in Richter's view, was one of history's nimblest...
LUTHER. Playwright John Osborne's Luther is a fiercely burning torch-dampened by tormenting disagreement with his church, threatened by the double dangers of self-doubt and physical pain, but shedding the guiding light of the Reformation...