Word: selfesteem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rope (Transatlantic Pictures; Warner) is an Alfred Hitchcock thriller. The story: two young men, fresh out of college, strangle a young friend-just for the thrill -and hide the body in a chest.To sharpen their excitement and selfesteem, they serve a buffet supper, off the murder chest, to the victim's father (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), sweetheart (Joan Chandler), unsuccessful rival (Douglas Dick) and a beloved former teacher (James Stewart...
...unchanging center of his life was the delicatessen. There he retreated when his girl left him, and recovered his selfesteem. He went back to it when his wartime job in a munitions factory blew up. He rested upstairs while he recovered from the attack of "appendicitis" he caught from a girl he picked...
...Enlist. The psychologists believe that reasons for man's enlisting his whole effort may be separated from the reasons he fights. Twelve reasons are offered for enlisting. Among them: mass suggestion, adventure, personal glory, natural combativeness, maintenance of selfesteem, "feeling of oneness with the nation and faith in the nation's leaders," faith in democracy, spirit of sacrifice...
...oats-see parts of his Come In, for instance. When he goes limpingly, as he does on many pages of his book, it is less because of his age than because he has come more & more to favor his worst poetical fault-his rascally independence, based on preternatural selfesteem. When full of this-and he is only occasionally entirely free of it-Frost writes like a wise man ensconced in a pickle...
...last chance at love with a night-club saxophonist named Wally Collins, and in her fever for what was left of living, abjectly destroyed everything she had, her class, her selfesteem, even her self-deceit. Her Golgotha was a hideous gin-party in Maida Vale with Wally, a model, a radio pianist, an auto racer, a girl who stood on her head and drank two pints of beer...