Word: selfesteem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...operation, she tried vainly to adopt a second child. She lost interest in housework, devoted hours to playing with her daughter, sometimes reversing their roles. When her husband became interested in a more mature woman, she quickly seized upon pregnancy as the only means of keeping her home and selfesteem. Last year she developed all the symptoms of pseudocyesis, including the same sharp decrease in the insulin required to control her diabetes that she had experienced in her real pregnancies...
...Love Possessed ends on a stoic note. Julius Penrose's statement that it takes real courage, intelligence, and discretion to carry on despite the recognition of one's sins, one's loss of honor and selfesteem, would appear to express the author's view...
...intensity on a huge (more than 9,000,000 words) "history of people." Unpublished and unfinished, Gould's An Oral History of Our Time was illegibly scribbled in hundreds of nickel notebooks, which he abandoned in the cellars and closets of his friends. Surviving on handouts and "air, selfesteem, cigarette butts, cowboy [black, no sugar] coffee, fried-egg sandwiches and ketchup," frail (5 ft. 4 in., about 95 Ibs.) Joe Gould sold (for a drink) entertainment (lectures, poetry recitals, epithets) to any willing bar patron. Gould had no known relatives but many friends, including Poet E. E. Cummings, Artist...
...evening wears on he gathers a little selfesteem; his gestures open out; he falls on a knee and thumps the stage; his hairdo collapses; he begins to get his teeth almost literally into his material, worrying the lyrics like a terrier with an old boot, biting off the sugary phrases as if they were sticks of seaside rock. In an atmosphere of rising hysteria, the screams mount, the band blasts. Those who would like to leave dare not, for fear of lynching...
Although their varied backgrounds marked them as "unique individuals," the men shared many deep-rooted disturbances. Besieged by a sense of rejection, they felt that being a woman was the only way to win recognition and maintain selfesteem. They were undisciplined and impatient, notably in their request for surgery. They particularly remembered childhood incidents supporting the idea that they had been female from birth. All, to some extent, were transvestites, i.e., desired to wear women's clothes. They struggled against all overt signs of masculinity; one even had his heavy, black beard burned out by electrolysis. Intense sexual conflicts...