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...distribution of knowledge, skills, and exposure to an aggressive and competitive spirit is fundamental to any group's success in society," Howard said. Howard urged intellectuals to foster personal development, self-esteem and constructive attitudes toward the family and marriage...
...Jumbotron video screen, so the back pews can catch the preacher's every gesture. Schuller's sermons, taxing to neither spirit nor intellect, owe as much to psychology as to Scripture. They are peppered with greeting-card aphorisms for seekers of happiness and self-esteem. "Coping and hoping." "Turn your scars into stars." The cross is "a minus turned into a plus." Beyond that, his crystalline Gospel aims at a historic shift, purging Christendom of what Schuller sees as centuries of ensnarement in negative thinking. By preaching sin and judgment, he argues, the clergy "can be, quite accidentally and unintentionally...
...abstract expressionism. Its artists, we have been told ad nauseam, shifted the focus of modern art from Paris to New York; Moses-like, they led American art from provincial darkness into the radiance of history, opening nothing less than a new chapter in the epic of American self-esteem, and so on, and so forth. So much money and institutional clout have been poured into and around the pyramid that it now seems as fixed a historical construct as that of Cheops. Nevertheless, it has not commemorated all the artists equally. Kline is the proof...
...Merton Olds, a Du Pont marketing manager with a Ph.D. in chemistry, and his wife Linda, a high school biology teacher. Noting the popularity of Trivial Pursuit, the black couple decided to devise a more educational game. Said Merton: "We wanted to invent something that would build black self-esteem." Their creation has 780 cards containing three questions each. Sample query: Name the most populous African country. Answer: Nigeria. The title Rise 'n fly comes from a type of winning hand...
...Democrats lost voter esteem on major economic and foreign policy issues...