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...years from now," contends Religious Historian Dennis Voskuil. The question, Voskuil says, is whether he will be remembered as a theologian or a showman. Like his early model, Positive Thinker Norman Vincent Peale, Schuller combines an affirmative outlook with old-fashioned piety to assure his audiences that self-esteem and success are desirable and achievable. During an hour that sometimes resembles a celebrity talk show, Schuller speaks earnestly of the abiding desire for self-worth, of "every person's deepest need--one's spiritual hunger for glory." Schuller attempts to assuage this emotional hunger with a smorgasbord of rhyming slogans...
After all, contemporary acclaim is wonderful. Peggy Lee, the jazz singer, once fielded the question "Who is the best jazz singer?" as cleanly as Brooks Robinson reaching over third base: "Do you mean besides Ella?" Such is the esteem in which Wayne Gretzky and Larry Bird are held now. By common agreement, each is the best in his sport, and something more than that. They are changing the elements if not the definition of a star. In Gretzky's and Bird's gloved and bare hands, hockey and basketball appear to improve even as games, seem to become not only...
...dangerous can be. Not only does masochism permit women to be manipulated on the job or at home, but they increase the likelihood of serious exploitation, rape and mysogenistic violence. The masochistic woman's need to please, and her need for love regardless of the cost to her self-esteem, dominates her relations with other people. She that is, most women) will not only accept guilt and blame automatically, and accomodate the demands of a man without realizing that these demand may be unreasonable. Virtually convinced that suffering is her lot, she may also be unable to help herself, even...
...student run organization operating under the guidance of the Department of Athletics and the NCAA, gives all intercollegiate and intramural student athletes the opportunity to from one-on-one friendships with children from the Cambridge Community The program also seeks to provide positive role models improve the self esteem of junior high school aged youths...
...private pool. Cowgill, who urged John to call any time he needed to talk, got him a job as a telephone installer, the trade he practiced back home. "A job is so central to these survivors," she says, "because it gives meaning to their lives and self-esteem...