Word: selfesteem
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...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...
...tests conducted with Dartmouth undergraduates, advertised products were best remembered when the commercial announcements appealed to selfesteem. Other appeals, in order of their persuasiveness : prestige, health, universality, sex, efficiency, economy, beauty, safety, comfort...
...cure children of lying, help them gain selfesteem, spare the rod, be patient, tell no lies (even "white" ones). "Thoroughgoing truthfulness comes hard and it generally comes late...
...Benjamin H. Ludlow, secretary of the Orchestra Association, at last mounted an auctioneer's stand draped with a red sale-today flag, the bidding was prompt and generous. Debutantes went from table to table collecting written pledges. The players whose music was being auctioned lost some of their selfesteem, but the $17,000 which was raised restored half their last pay cut, gave 600 impoverished music students free tickets for the season...